American fictions / Elizabeth Hardwick.
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- ISBN: 0375754822 (acid-free paper) :
- Physical Description: xx, 352 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1999 Modern Library pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1999.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
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Subject: | American literature > History and criticism. |
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American Fictions
"Just as 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 essays are themselves a work of literature.