Seduction and Betrayal

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers and <i>Seduction and Betrayal</i> 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 <i>Wuthering Heights Hedda Gabler</i> and the poems of Sylvia Plath <i>Seduction and Betrayal</i> is a virtuoso performance a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women women and writing writing and life.