The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.

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.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 9781681371542
Color Tan
Height 7.99211
Length 5.03936
Weight 1.38670762798
Width 1.29921
ReleaseDate 2017-10-17
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)