![]() Hardwick has no interest in flattery, nor in faux solidarity with minor writers. She understands what is at stake in literature, especially when talented women write it.įor a female writer, to risk stepping center stage in life and on the page, fully lit, a major player in a script she has written, will always mean she has transgressed from the societally sanctified role of being a minor player, lurking behind the velvet curtains (less exposing) in order to assist, flatter, dedicate her life to the male world and its undermining arrangements. In Seduction and Betrayal, readers are treated to the full reach of Hardwick’s deep intelligence: a hard, glinting, sophisticated, switched-on female intelligence. That is to say, her essays are of value to anyone interested in the ways in which women are made present in literature. ![]() Elizabeth Hardwick is one of the world’s most valuable essayists and literary critics. ![]()
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