Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays
Title Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher Vintage
Pages 316
Release 1984
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN

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Critical Companion to Herman Melville

Critical Companion to Herman Melville
Title Critical Companion to Herman Melville PDF eBook
Author Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher Infobase Publishing
Pages 401
Release 2007
Genre Authors, American
ISBN 1438108478

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Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Title The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 641
Release 2017-10-17
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1681371545

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The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 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.

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Title The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 641
Release 2017-10-17
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1681371553

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The first-ever collection of 50+ writings from the 20th-century critic who “redefined the possibilities of the literary essay”—including works not seen in print for decades (The New Yorker) 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. 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 50 essays for a 50-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. “An authoritative immersion in American writing . . . Here are Dylan Thomas’s last days in New York . . . Truman Capote’s ‘unique crocodilian celebrity’; WH Auden, Isherwood, Henry James, Nabokov, Mailer, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, to name but a few . . . ” —Financial Times

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
Title A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick PDF eBook
Author Cathy Curtis
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 327
Release 2021-11-16
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 132400553X

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The first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic, and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical novel Sleepless Nights. Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty, romantic escapades, and dustups with authors she eviscerated in The New York Review of Books, of which she was a cofounder. She formed lasting friendships with literary notables—including Mary McCarthy, Adrienne Rich, and Susan Sontag—who appreciated her sharp wit and relish for gossip, progressive politics, and great literature. Hardwick’s life and writing were shaped by a turbulent marriage to the poet Robert Lowell, whom she adored, standing by faithfully through his episodes of bipolar illness. Lowell’s decision to publish excerpts from her private letters in The Dolphin greatly distressed Hardwick and ignited a major literary controversy. Hardwick emerged from the scandal with the clarity and wisdom that illuminate her brilliant work—most notably Sleepless Nights, a daring, lyrical, and keenly perceptive collage of reflections and glimpses of people encountered as they stumble through lives of deprivation or privilege. A Splendid Intelligence finally gives Hardwick her due as one of the great postwar cultural critics. Ranging over a broad territory—from the depiction of women in classic novels to the civil rights movement, from theater in New York to life in Brazil, Kentucky, and Maine—Hardwick’s essays remain strikingly original, fiercely opinionated, and exquisitely wrought. In this lively and illuminating biography, Cathy Curtis offers an intimate portrait of an exceptional woman who vigorously forged her own identity on and off the page.

The Best American Essays of the Century

The Best American Essays of the Century
Title The Best American Essays of the Century PDF eBook
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher
Pages 632
Release 2000
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.

The American Short Story Handbook

The American Short Story Handbook
Title The American Short Story Handbook PDF eBook
Author James Nagel
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 323
Release 2015-02-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0470655410

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This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study