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…mehr
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.
A Note to Readers Of Intellect and Culture Living and Reading by Thomas Flanagan Of Academics and Intellectuals by Terry Cooney A Glint of Malice by Morris Dickstein Our Leading Bitch Intellectual by Beverly Gross Terrorists Artists and Intellectuals by Margaret Scanlan "Knowing Concerns Me": The Female Intellectual and the Consumer Idiom by Jill Wacker Questions of Politics and Religion Nicola Chiaromonte the Politics Circle and the Search for a Postwar "Third Camp" by Gregory D. Sumner Reimagining Politics by Harvey Teres The Left Reconsidered by Alan Wald A Very Narrow Range of Choice: Political Dilemma in The Groves of Academe by Timothy F. Waples Reluctant Radical: The Irish-Catholic Element by Stacey Lee Donohue The Uses of Ambivalence: Mary McCarthy's Jewish Politics by Rhoda Nathan Mind and Body The Stink of Father Zossima: The Medical Fact in Mary McCarthy's Fiction by Perri Klass Frigid Women Frozen Dinners: The Bio-Politics of "Tyranny of the Orgasm" by Priscilla Perkins Damn My Stream of Consciousness by Katie Roiphe Facts in Fiction A Single Truth But Tell It Sharp by Mary Ann Caws Mary McCarthy as a Fictional Character by Thomas Mallon The Minotaur as Mentor: Edmund Wilson's Role in the Career of Mary McCarthy by Avis Hewitt Biography and Reminiscence My Secret Sharer by Carol Brightman Just the Facts Ma'am and Nothing But the Facts: A Biographer's Reminiscence by Carol Gelderman Contracts and Nymphets by Frances Kiernan Taking Risks by Frances Fitzgerald Memories of Another Catholic Girlhood by Maureen Howard Remembrances of an Old Friend by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Bibliography Index
A Note to Readers Of Intellect and Culture Living and Reading by Thomas Flanagan Of Academics and Intellectuals by Terry Cooney A Glint of Malice by Morris Dickstein Our Leading Bitch Intellectual by Beverly Gross Terrorists Artists and Intellectuals by Margaret Scanlan "Knowing Concerns Me": The Female Intellectual and the Consumer Idiom by Jill Wacker Questions of Politics and Religion Nicola Chiaromonte the Politics Circle and the Search for a Postwar "Third Camp" by Gregory D. Sumner Reimagining Politics by Harvey Teres The Left Reconsidered by Alan Wald A Very Narrow Range of Choice: Political Dilemma in The Groves of Academe by Timothy F. Waples Reluctant Radical: The Irish-Catholic Element by Stacey Lee Donohue The Uses of Ambivalence: Mary McCarthy's Jewish Politics by Rhoda Nathan Mind and Body The Stink of Father Zossima: The Medical Fact in Mary McCarthy's Fiction by Perri Klass Frigid Women Frozen Dinners: The Bio-Politics of "Tyranny of the Orgasm" by Priscilla Perkins Damn My Stream of Consciousness by Katie Roiphe Facts in Fiction A Single Truth But Tell It Sharp by Mary Ann Caws Mary McCarthy as a Fictional Character by Thomas Mallon The Minotaur as Mentor: Edmund Wilson's Role in the Career of Mary McCarthy by Avis Hewitt Biography and Reminiscence My Secret Sharer by Carol Brightman Just the Facts Ma'am and Nothing But the Facts: A Biographer's Reminiscence by Carol Gelderman Contracts and Nymphets by Frances Kiernan Taking Risks by Frances Fitzgerald Memories of Another Catholic Girlhood by Maureen Howard Remembrances of an Old Friend by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Bibliography Index
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