American Fictions: 1 (Modern Library) - Softcover

Hardwick, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375754822 ISBN 13: 9780375754821

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Fifty years of literary criticism by the acclaimed critic covers the works of Hawthorne, Dreiser, Melville, Wharton, James, Stein, Plath, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, and Cheever, among many other American authors.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of three collections of essays, Bartleby in Manhattan, A View of My Own, and Seduction and Betrayal, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her novel Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received the Lifetime Achievement Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and the Gold Medal for Belles-Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She passed away December 2, 2007.

From the Inside Flap

s Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay."
--The New Yorker

A brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melville, Wharton and James to the fictions of Margaret Fuller, Sylvia Plath and Norman Mailer. Twenty-five years ago, Elizabeth Hardwick's now classic essay "Seduction and Betrayal" helped pioneer the study of women in fiction, both as writers and as characters. American Fictions gathers fro the first time Hardwick's portraits of America's greatest writers. Many of these pieces double as individual reminiscences about close friends, including Mary McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter and Edmund Wilson. Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant style. Her

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375754822
• ISBN 13: 9780375754821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384