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

Other author Stwertka, Eve.
Other author Viscusi, Margo.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Descriptionxii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesContributions to the study of world literature ; no. 70
Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 70. ^A494671
Contents Living and reading / Thomas Flanagan -- 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.
Contents Reimagining politics / Harvey Teres -- 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.
Contents Frigid women, frozen dinners : bio-politics of "tyranny of the orgasm" / Priscilla Perkins -- 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.
Contents Taking risks / Frances Fitzgerald -- Memories of another Catholic girlhood / Maureen Howard -- Remembrances of an old friend / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
General noteBased on papers originally presented at a conference on Mary McCarthy held at Bard College in 1993.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
LCCN 96005801
ISBN0313297762 (alk. paper)