Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

by Elizabeth Hardwick

Other authorsJoan Didion (Introduction)
Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

809.89287

Collection

Publication

NYRB Classics (2001), Paperback, 224 pages

Description

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

User reviews

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
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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)

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Arts and Letters — 1975)

Language

Original publication date

1974

Physical description

205 p.; 7.87 inches

ISBN

0940322781 / 9780940322783
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