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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

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Synopsis:

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.

Table of Contents

The 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780374257941
Subtitle:
(selected essays )
Introduction:
Wieseltier, Leon
Editor:
Wieseltier, Leon
Author:
Wieseltier, Leon
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
American
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Trilling, lionel, 1905-1975
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
106-111
Publication Date:
2000
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 572 p.
Dimensions:
9.28x6.40x1.77 in. 2.03 lbs.

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