Full name: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Author: Elizabeth Hardwick Year: 1974 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780940322783 0940322781

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. Similar books: The Irresponsible Self by James Wood A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter Fiction and the Figures of Life by William H. Gass The Broken Estate by James Wood The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf What to Read and Why by Francine Prose The Fun Stuff by James Wood On Literature by Umberto Eco Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov The Curtain by Milan Kundera Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson Reality Hunger by David Shields We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Not That Bad by Roxane Gay Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker