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ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued
with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.

'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag


Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick dissects the history of women and literature.


In her most virtuoso work of criticism, she explores the lives of the Brontës, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the destinies of fictional heroines from Richardson's Clarissa to Ibsen's Nora. With fierce empathy and biting wit, Hardwick mines their childhoods, families, and personalities to probe the costs of sex, love, and marriage. Shattering the barrier between writing and life, she asks who is the seducer and who the seduced; who the victim and who the victor.

First published in 1974, yet both urgently timely and timeless, Seduction and Betrayal explodes the conventions of the essay: and the result is nothing less than a reckoning.

Seduction and Betrayal

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ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 04/07/2019
    ISBN13: 9780571347001, 978-0571347001
    ISBN10: 0571347002

    Number of Pages: 224

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies

    Description

    ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

    Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued
    with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.

    'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag


    Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick dissects the history of women and literature.


    In her most virtuoso work of criticism, she explores the lives of the Brontës, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the destinies of fictional heroines from Richardson's Clarissa to Ibsen's Nora. With fierce empathy and biting wit, Hardwick mines their childhoods, families, and personalities to probe the costs of sex, love, and marriage. Shattering the barrier between writing and life, she asks who is the seducer and who the seduced; who the victim and who the victor.

    First published in 1974, yet both urgently timely and timeless, Seduction and Betrayal explodes the conventions of the essay: and the result is nothing less than a reckoning.

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