num_pages: 205
description: The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal , in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler , and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
language: English
title: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
titlecomplete: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (New York Review Books Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Writing, Literature, Criticism, Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, Books About Books
ratings_count: 521
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: NYRB Classics