Recenzja książki Cornelii Wilhelminy Koolen "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality"

Abstract

Presented text is a review of the book "Reading beyond the female: The relationship between perception of author gender and literary quality" by Dutch researcher Cornelia Koolen. Discussed book undertakes the issues of relations between the gender of the author, evaluation of literary quality of their work and actual features of the texts, thus fitting in the larger trend of research on gender stereotypes in language and literature. The innovative use of quantitative methods also grants it an important place within literature on stylometric, making it an interdisciplinary work.