The Liberal Imagination
by Trilling, Lionel
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was born in New York and educated at Columbia University, to which he returned as an instructor in 1932, and where he continued to teach in the English Department throughout his long and highly distinguished career as a literary critic. Among the most influential of his many works are three collections of essays, The Liberal Imagination, The Opposing Self, and Beyond Culture; a collection of lectures, Sincerity and Authenticity; a critical study of E.M. Forster; and one novel, The Middle of the Journey (available as an NYRB Classic). The Journey Abandoned, an unfinished novel, was published posthumously in 2008. Lionel Trilling was married to the writer and critic Diana Trilling.Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club and American Studies.
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New York: Viking. Original green cloth. First Edition. Inscription in ink signed by Trilling: "To Harry Carman with my ever-growing affection and admiration Lionel Trilling. 21 March 1950." Carman was Dean of Columbia College and Chair of the History Department. Highly influential. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with several small edge tears. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st… Read more about this item Item Price
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