THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ELIZABETH HARDWICK

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 literatureMe lville, James, Whartonand the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers liveswomen wri...[Read more]