Lionel Trilling's first collection of essays, published in 1950, brought him much recognition and respect. The subtitle set forth the critical approach that was to mark all of his work.
A literary and critical giant during his life, Lionel Trilling slid somewhat out of favor after his death, when literary criticism became hostile to Trilling's unclassifiable combination of a tight focus on the texts at hand with a broad view of culture, psychology, and politics. This book brings some of his best work back into print for the first ...
Matthew Arnold BY LIONEL TRILLING NEW YORK COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON GEORGE ALLEN and UNWIN, LTD. Copyright 1939, 1949, by Lionel Trilling FIRST PRINTING 1939 BY W. W. NORTON COMPANY, INC. REISSUED WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL 1949 BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS AND GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN, LTD. REPRINTED 1958 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF ...
"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "it is possible to observe the moral life in the process of reversing itself." In this book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life--and the further shift which ...
Committed American Communists, Arthur and Nancy Croom, find their assumptions faltering when they meet Gifford Maxim, an ex-party member, while they are visiting a friend in Connecticut. Lionel Trilling's classic novel, first published in 1947, was an honest investigation of an issue that was to enter the forefront of American political life a few ...
In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "third" of a book that Trilling described as having "point, immediacy, warmth under control, drama, and ...
Relatively unknown in the West, Tian Wen: A Chinese Book Of Origins is a fascinating, though often baffling, archaic collection of 186 'question about the origins of life and the meanings of a wide variety of happenings.
"The Opposing Self" which first appeared in 1955, is a collection of nine major literary essays on widely diverse writers: Keats, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Tolstoi, Dickens, Flaubert, Howells, Henry James, Orwell....The aspect of modern thought of most concern to Trilling in "The Opposing Self" is the development of the idea of the self.
His first full-length work, this book established Trilling's critical reputation. His brilliant study not only brought Arnold out of semi-obscurity, but also defined the significant cultural and political ties between Arnold's century and our own.
"The Liberal Imagination" is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promise-and limits-of ...
Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
A literary and critical giant during his life, Lionel Trilling slid somewhat out of favor after his death, when literary criticism became hostile to Trilling's unclassifiable combination of a tight focus on the texts at hand with a broad view of culture, psychology, and politics. This book brings some of his best work back into print for the first ...
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