Seduction and Betrayal (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Principal Characters: Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Carlyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Henrik Ibsen, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Wives, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Literature, Victims, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, Women’s movement
Form and Content
As early as 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick declared, “The proper study of mankind may be man, but the subject for women is other women. . . . It is a subject upon which one can speak with something like authority.” Seduction and Betrayal bears out that conviction. It collects essays on women that Hardwick, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books, originally published in that journal, though some have been altered and others expanded since their initial appearances. A few of the essays were read as papers: The title essay was...
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