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Book Description
This collection of essays by a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers strikes an intriguing balance between scholarship and reminiscence. The only full-length book on Mary McCarthy that is not a biography, this volume contains discussions of McCarthy as a member of the New York intelligentsia, her search for a just and ethical political philosophy, and the paradox of her views on feminism. The contributors include McCarthy biographers Carol Brightman, Carol Gelderman, and Fran Kiernan; novelists Thomas Flanagan, Maureen Howard, and Thomas Mallon; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Frances Fitzgerald; and critics Morris Dickstein and Katie Roiphe. The book concludes with a moving reminiscence by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
About the Author
EVE STWERTKA was a student of Mary McCarthy's at Bard College, in the late 1940s. MARGO VISCUSI worked for eight years as secretary to Mary McCarthy in Paris and is now a trustee of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust.
Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work, Vol. 70 FROM THE PUBLISHER
This collection of essays by a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers strikes an intriguing balance between scholarship and reminiscence. The only full-length book on Mary McCarthy that is not a biography, this volume contains discussions of McCarthy as a member of the New York intelligentsia, her search for a just and ethical political philosophy, and the paradox of her views on feminism. The contributors include McCarthy biographers Carol Brightman, Carol Gelderman, and Fran Kiernan; novelists Thomas Flanagan, Maureen Howard, and Thomas Mallon; Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Frances Fitzgerald; and critics Morris Dickstein and Katie Roiphe. The book concludes with a moving reminiscence by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
SYNOPSIS
The first available nonbiographical study of Mary McCarthy and her work, this collection brings together a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers. Twenty-Four Ways Of Looking At Mary McCarthy strikes an intriguing balance between scholarship and reminiscence.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
An astute collection of essays probing McCarthy's intellectual
complexity and cultural transcendence without disturbing her
satirical, sometimes radical, and often irreverent tone. The
contributors, including powerhouses such as Carol Brightman, Thomas
Flanagan, Katie Roiphe, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., analyze
McCarthy's intellectual landscape and her status as "our leading
bitch intellectual," the author's alliances with Nicola Chiaromonte
and Hannah Arendt, the ever-changing leftist politics that
intersected with Catholicism and Judaism to form a unique world view
further dissected in a number of essays offering personal reminisces
of the woman and her writing. The papers were originally presented
in rough draft form at a Mary McCarthy conference held at Bard
College, 1993.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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