Title:
The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York : New York Review Books, [2017]
Physical Description:
xix, 610 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781681371542
Abstract:
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature--Melville, James, Wharton--and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers' lives--women writers, rebels, Americans abroad--and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick's work from 1953 to 2003. "For Hardwick," writes Pinckney, "the poetry and novels of America hold the nation's history." Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.--Publisher website.
Contents:
Memoirs, conversations and diaries -- Anderson, Millay, and Crane in their letters -- The subjection of women -- George Eliot's husband -- The neglected novels of Christina Stead -- America and Dylan Thomas -- The decline of book reviewing -- Boston -- William James : an American hero -- Living in Italy : reflections on Bernard Berenson -- Mary McCarthy -- Loveless love : Graham Greene -- The insulted and injured : books about poverty -- Grub Street : New York -- Frost in his letters -- Ring Lardner -- Grub Street : Washington -- Selma, Alabama : the charms of goodness -- After Watts -- The apotheosis of Martin Luther King -- Chicago -- Reflections on fiction -- Dead souls : Ernest Hemingway -- In Maine -- Militant nudes -- Sue and Arabella -- Sad Brazil -- Sense of the present -- Simone Weil -- Domestic manners -- Wives and mistresses -- Unknown Faulkner -- Nabokov : master class -- English visitors in America -- Bartleby in Manhattan -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Sons of the city's pavements : Delmore Schwartz -- The magical prose of poets : Elizabeth Bishop -- The teller and the tape : Norman Mailer -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The fictions of America -- Mrs. Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- Wind from the prairie -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- Edmund Wilson -- Paradise lost : Philip Roth -- In the wasteland : Joan Didion -- Tru confessions : Truman Capote -- Locations : the landscapes of fiction -- Melville in love -- The torrents of Wolfe : Thomas Wolfe -- The foster father : Henry James -- Funny as a crutch : Nathaniel West.
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English
