Seduction and betrayal : women and literature

by Elizabeth Hardwick

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

HARDWICK

Collection

Essays

Genres

All Topics

Nonfiction

Publication

New York : New York Review of Books, [2001].

Description

A major writer's reckoning with the realtions between men and women, women and writing, writing and life

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LibraryThing member ifjuly

Hardwick's one of my favorite literary critics now that I've managed to read this. She is spot on, resists being generically or blandly glib, and is female-mind-oriented without being dismissive or exclusive about it. And sharp, so sharp, and a hell of a sentence-structurer to boot. The best kind

of literary reviewer.

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LibraryThing member marilib

essays on: The Brontës, Ibsen's Women, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, Jane Carlyle.
Quote: "It is a question whether there is such a things as seduction when the affections play a part" (p. 185)

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