The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent; Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling,9780374527990

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent; Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780374527990
ISBN10: 0374527997
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-10-17
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces - onMansfield Parkand on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's bookThe Liberal Imagination.

Author Biography

Lionel Trilling (1905-74) taught at Columbia University from 1931 until his death and was the author of many books, including Matthew Arnold and a novel, The Middle of the Journey. Leon Wieseltier is literary editor of The New Republic.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Leon Wieseltier
The America of John Dos Passos
3(8)
Hemingway and His Critics
11(10)
T. S. Eliot's Politics
21(12)
The Immortality Ode
33(29)
Kipling
62(9)
Reality in America
71(16)
Art and Neurosis
87(18)
Manners, Morals, and the Novel
105(15)
The Kinsey Report
120(17)
Huckleberry Finn
137(12)
The Princess Casamassima
149(29)
Wordsworth and the Rabbis
178(25)
William Dean Howells and the Roots of Modern Taste
203(21)
The Poet as Hero: Keats in His Letters
224(35)
George Orwell and the Politics of Truth
259(16)
The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time
275(17)
Mansfield Park
292(19)
Isaac Babel
311(20)
The Morality of Inertia
331(9)
``That Smile of Parmenides Made Me Think''
340(14)
The Last Lover
354(18)
The Speech on Robert Frost: A Cultural Episode
372(9)
On the Teaching of Modern Literature
381(21)
The Leavis-Snow Controversy
402(25)
The Fate of Pleasure
427(23)
James Joyce in His Letters
450(27)
Mind in the Modern World
477(24)
Art, Will, and Necessity
501(16)
Why We Read Jane Austen
517(40)
Appendixes
Under Forty
539(4)
Preface to The Liberal Imagination
543(6)
Preface to Beyond Culture
549(8)
Bibliographical Notes 557(4)
Index 561

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