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Seduction and Betrayal

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Author Elizabeth Hardwick Published by Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571347001 EAN 9780571347001 Bic Code D Cover Paperback

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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 Bront?s, 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. Both urgently timely and timeless, this book explodes the conventions of the essay: and the result is nothing less than a reckoning.