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LIONEL TRILLING (1905 - 1975)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent: Selected Essays.  Ed. Leon Wieseltier.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001.

  • The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-1975.  Ed. Diana Trilling.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981.

  • Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning.  New York: Viking, 1965.

  • A Gathering of Fugitives.  Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1956.

  • Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture.  1955.

  • The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism.  Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1955.

  • The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.  London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1951.  Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, 2008.

• Edited Works:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Journey Abandoned; the Unfinished Novel.  Ed. Geraldine Murphy.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.

  • Sincerity and Authenticity.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1972.

  • "The Situation of the American Intellectual at the Present Time."  1952. 

    • A Gathering of Fugitives.  Boston: Beacon, 1956.

  • E. M. Forster.  1943.

  • "Manners, Morals, and the Novel."  The Kenyon Review (1948): . 

    • Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.  Durham: Duke UP, 1988.  77-91.

    • The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.  London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1951.  205-222. 

  • "Art and Neurosis."  Partisan Review (1945): . 

    • The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.  London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1951.  160-180. 

  • "Freud and Literature."  The Kenyon Review (1940): . 

    • Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.  Ed. David Lodge.  London: Longman, 1972.

     276-291.

    • The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.  London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1951.  34-57.

  • Matthew Arnold.  1939.

  • "On the Teaching of Modern Literature." 

    • Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning.  New York: Viking, 1965.

  • "The Two Environments: Reflections on the Study of English." 

    • Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning.  New York: Viking, 1965.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Rodden, John, ed.  Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Chace, William M.  Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1980.

  • Krupnick, Mark.  Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Culture Criticism.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1986.

On-Line:

• Chace, William M.: Lionel Trilling (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Collini, Stefan: Trilling's Sandbags: Lionel Trilling's Critical Essays The Nation December 3, 2008

• Columbia University: Lionel Trilling

• Glick, Nathan: The Last Great Critic The Atlantic July 2000

• McCarter, Jeremy: He Gave Liberalism a Good Name Newsweek September 27, 2008

• Menand, Louis: Regrets Only New Yorker September 29, 2008

• Ozick, Cynthia: Novel or Nothing New Republic May 28, 2008

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Lionel Trilling

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