Nov 18, 2008

Seduction and Betrayal | Seduction and Betrayal

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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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Seduction and Betrayal | Seduction and Betrayal

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