{"product_id":"seduction-betrayal","title":"Seduction \u0026 Betrayal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW''S BEST BOOKS OF 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Hardwick''s iconic essay collection \u003ci\u003eSeduction and Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Hardwick''s sentences are burned in my brain.'' - Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick dissects the history of women and literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her most virtuoso work of criticism, she explores the lives of the \u003cb\u003eBrontës, Woolf, Eliot and Plath\u003c\/b\u003e; the fate of literary wives such as \u003cb\u003eZelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle;\u003c\/b\u003e and the destinies of fictional heroines from \u003cb\u003eRichardson''s Clarissa to Ibsen''s Nora. \u003c\/b\u003eWith fierce empathy and biting wit, Hardwick mines their childhoods, families, and personalities to probe the costs of sex, love, and marriage. Shattering the barrier between writing and life, she asks who is the seducer and who the seduced; who the victim and who the victor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in \u003cb\u003e1974\u003c\/b\u003e, yet both urgently timely and timeless,\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeduction and Betrayal \u003c\/i\u003eexplodes the conventions of the essay: \u003c\/b\u003eand the result is nothing less than a reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318772572542,"sku":"NW9780571347001","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571347001.jpg?v=1778656454","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/seduction-betrayal","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}