Sharp
The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
These ten women--Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm--are united by what Dean calls "sharpness," the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books . It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing in a climate where women were treated with extreme condescension by the male-dominated cultural establishment.
Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Women Dea | Blythewood | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY Women Dea | Southeast | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/10/2024) |