Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling

Title: Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling
Author: Lionel Trilling
ISBN: 9780374527990
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
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Literary Criticism: 1694134
Section: Literary Collections | Essays
Publisher Description: 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."