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Title:

Twenty-four ways of looking at Mary McCarthy : the writer and her work / edited by Eve Stwertka and Margo Viscusi.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

xii, 224 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

McCarthy, Mary,--1912---Congresses.--Congresses.
McCarthy, Mary,--1912---Congresses.--Congresses.
Women and literature--United States--Congresses.--20th century--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Stwertka, Eve
Viscusi, Margo.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780313297762 (alk. paper)
0313297762 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34411993
(OCoLC)36387659

LCCN:

96005801

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 818/.5209

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)