Based on papers originally presented at a conference on Mary McCarthy held at Bard College in 1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
Contents:
Nicola Chiaromonte, politics circle, and search for a postwar "third camp" / Gregory D. Sumner. Of academics and intellectuals / Terry A. Cooney -- Glint of malice / Morris Dickstein -- Our leading bitch itellectual / Beverly Gross -- Terrorists, artists, and intellectuals / Margaret Scanlan -- "Knowing concerns me" : female intellectual and consumer idiom / Jill Wacker -- Nicola Chiaromonte, politics circle, and search for a postwar "third camp" / Gregory D. Sumner. Stink of Father Zossima : medical fact in Mary McCarthy's fiction / Perry Klass. Left reconsidered / Alan Wald -- "Very narrow range of choice" : political dilemma in The groves of academe / Timothy F. Waples -- Reluctant radical : Irish-Catholic element / Stacey Lee Donohue -- Uses of ambivalence : Mary McCarthy's Jewish politics / Rhoda Nathan -- Stink of Father Zossima : medical fact in Mary McCarthy's fiction / Perry Klass. No stone unturned : contracts and nymphets / Frances Kiernan. Damn my stream of consciousness / Katie Roiphe -- Single truth, but tell it sharp / Mary Ann Caws -- Mary McCarthy as a fictional character / Thomas Mallon -- Minotaur as mentor : Edmund Wilson's role in the career of Mary McCarthy / Avis Hewitt -- My secret sharer / Carol Brightman -- Just facts, ma'am, and nothing but facts : a biographer's reminiscence / Carol Gelderman -- No stone unturned : contracts and nymphets / Frances Kiernan. Remembrances of an old friend / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Memories of another Catholic girlhood / Maureen Howard -- Remembrances of an old friend / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Series:
Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 70
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