Synopses & Reviews
Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a whos who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through the 1970s. They include Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren, F. R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, R. W. B. Lewis, R. P. Blackmur, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Raymond Williams, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, William Barrett, Bruno Bettelheim, Gerald Graff, and Cornel West.
Synopsis
A comprehensive portrait of one of the most influential American cultural critics of the twentieth century.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-476) and index.
About the Author
John Rodden is the author of The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell.