The Liberal Imagination
Essays on Literature and Society
$41.55
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2008
Summary
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 liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naive liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asser…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590172834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590172833 |
| Author: | Lionel Trilling, Louis Menand |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 203mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
This collection of essays, on subjects as diverse as Wordsworth’s Immorality Ode and the Kinsey Report, is still wonderfully exciting, serious but never solemn, and of course, exquisitely written. Oldie
Lionel Trilling
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) was born in New York and educated at Columbia University. He returned to Columbia as an instructor in 1932 and remained in the English Department throughout his long and distinguished career as a literary critic.
Among his most influential works are:
- The Liberal Imagination (essays)
- The Opposing Self (essays)
- Beyond Culture (essays)
- Sincerity and Authenticity (lectures)
- A critical study of E.M. Forster
- The Middle of the Journey (novel)
His unfinished novel, The Journey Abandoned, was published posthumously in 2008. Lionel Trilling was married to the writer and critic Diana Trilling.
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