From Library Journal
From the publication of Matthew Arnold in 1939 until his death in 1975, Lionel TrillingAColumbia professor, influential critic, and fiction writerArepresented the dominant voice of left-wing cultural criticism. His nine books include such seminal works as The Liberal Imagination, The Opposing Self, Beyond Culture, and Sincerity and Authenticity. In a fascinating experiment in intellectual biography, editor Rodden (The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell) has gathered major reviews and critical responses contemporary to each of Trilling's books, including essays by Edmund Wilson, John Bayley, Norman Podhoretz, and Irving Howe. These range across the intellectual and political spectrum and offer insight into both Trilling's views and the cultural history of his times. Insightful but also simply good reading; for academic libraries.AThomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, GA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


The New York Times Book Review, David Yezzi
Rodden's book offers a welcome opportunity to focus on the writings rather than on the life of this influential and deeply private man.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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 who's 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

Collection of reviews and essays about Lionel Trilling's work from the 1930s through the 1970s.

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Library Journal

From the publication of Matthew Arnold in 1939 until his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling--Columbia professor, influential critic, and fiction writer--represented the dominant voice of left-wing cultural criticism. His nine books include such seminal works as The Liberal Imagination, The Opposing Self, Beyond Culture, and Sincerity and Authenticity. In a fascinating experiment in intellectual biography, editor Rodden (The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell) has gathered major reviews and critical responses contemporary to each of Trilling's books, including essays by Edmund Wilson, John Bayley, Norman Podhoretz, and Irving Howe. These range across the intellectual and political spectrum and offer insight into both Trilling's views and the cultural history of his times. Insightful but also simply good reading; for academic libraries.--Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, GA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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