Hardwick, Elizabeth

Seduction and betrayal; women and literature by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
26 editions published between 1974 and 2001 in English and held by 2,052 libraries worldwide
Ibsen's female characters as well as the Brontë sisters, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Jane Carlyle are considered in essays studying contrasts in heroism.

Herman Melville by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
12 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,572 libraries worldwide
The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, & the challenging shape of his life, a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius." Hardwick's superb critical interpretation & award-winning novelistic flair reveal a former whaleship deck hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. Later, a self-described "thought-diver" into "the truth of the human heart" Melville harbored a bitterness that knew no bounds when that same public failed to embrace his masterwork, Moby-Dick. Invaluable for enthusiasts of American literature, Herman Melville is itself a masterpiece of critical commentary in the tradition of D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature.

Sleepless nights by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
30 editions published between 1979 and 2001 in 6 languages and held by 1,447 libraries worldwide
Selvbiografisk roman om en intellektuel amerikansk kvindes erindringsglimt fra flere epoker af sit liv blandt kunstnere og brogede personer.

Bartleby in Manhattan : and other essays by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
11 editions published between 1983 and 1987 in English and held by 951 libraries worldwide

A view of my own; essays in literature and society by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
13 editions published between 1962 and 1979 in English and held by 814 libraries worldwide

Sight-readings : American fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
6 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 747 libraries worldwide

American fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
7 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 618 libraries worldwide
"A tour of a century of 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 for the first time Hardwick's portraits of America's greatest writers. Many of these pieces double as invaluable 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Selected letters by William James ( Book )
3 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 595 libraries worldwide

The ghostly lover by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
12 editions published between 1945 and 1989 in English and held by 453 libraries worldwide

The simple truth by Elizabeth Hardwick ( Book )
11 editions published between 1955 and 1987 in English and held by 396 libraries worldwide