Seduction and Betrayal (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- 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
A collection of essays that originally appeared in the influential New York Review of Books, a journal that Hardwick helped to found in 1963, Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature focuses on both women’s lives in literature and literature in the lives of women. As a woman critic writing about other women, both real and fictional, Hardwick provides interesting pieces of literary, biographical, and social criticism from a viewpoint that, at the time of their original appearance, was clearly in the minority.
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