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This title in other editionsThe Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essaysby Lionel Trilling
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 - on Mansfield Park and 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 book The Liberal Imagination. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index. About the AuthorLionel 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 ContentsThe America of John Dos Passos — Hemingway and his critics — T.S. Eliot's politics — The immortality of ode — Kipling — Reality in America — Art and neurosis — Manners, morals, and the novel — The Kinsey report — Huckleberry Finn — The Princess Casamassima — Wordsworth and the Rabbis — William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste — The poet as hero: Keats in his letters — George Orwell and the politics of truth — The situation of the American intellectual at the present time — Mansfield Park — Isaac Babel — The morality of inertia — "That smile of Parmenides made me think" — The last lover — A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode — On the teaching of modern literature — The Leavis-Snow controversy — The fate of pleasure — James Joyce in his letters — Mind in the modern world — Art, will, and necessity — Why we read Jane Austen. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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