Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

by Elizabeth Hardwick

2021-01-08 05:05:09

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America''s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literatu... Read more
The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America''s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer''s reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. Less

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File size7.98 X 5.01 X 0.6 in
Print pages224
PublisherNew York Review Books
Publication date August 31, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780940322783
Elizabeth Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – Dec 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. In 1959, Hardwick published...

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