Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature. New York: Random House, (1974).
8vo.; red printed wrappers; fine.
Together with:
Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal: Women in Literature. New York: Random House, (1974).
8vo.; tan paper-covered boards; bright green cloth spine; tan dust-jacket; fine.
An uncorrected proof of Hardwick’s important feminist literary study, together with a first edition. Both are presentation copies, inscribed to a New York bookseller: the proof: “To Burt, the writers (plural) friend in need. Elizabeth”; the first edition: “To Burt—with my gratitude for his enthusiasm and endurance as a book lover. Elizabeth.” Burt Britton co-founded Books & Co., a beloved literary haunt contiguous with the Whitney museum, in 1979, with Jeanette Watson, heir to the IBM fortune; Books & Co. folded in 1997.
Novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick was born in Kentucky in 1916. At twenty-three, after earning her master’s degree in English at the University of Kentucky, she moved to New York, where she enrolled at Columbia University and pursued a career as a fiction writer. In 1940 Hardwick married the poet Robert Lowell; they divorced in 1970. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of nonfiction.
Hardwick’s reputation as an essayist began with her writings for Partisan Review; it was solidified in 1963, when she became a founding editor of the New York Review of Books. In Seduction and Betrayal, Hardwick’s second collection of essays, the author explores the various roles of women as literary creators and characters. Today, Seduction and Betrayal is mandatory reading in women’s study and literature classes; together with Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and Gilbert and Gubar’s Madwoman in the Attic, it identified an entirely new direction for academic feminist criticism.
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