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100 1 $aTrilling, Lionel,$d1905-1975.
245 10$aLife in culture :$bselected letters of Lionel Trilling /$cedited by Adam Kirsch.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2018.
300 $axi, 448 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism. To his New York intellectual peers, Trilling could seem reserved and circumspect. But in his selected letters, Trilling is revealed in all his variousness and complexity. We witness his ardent courtship of Diana Trilling, who would become an eminent intellectual in her own right; his alternately affectionate and contentious rapport with former students such as Allen Ginsberg and Norman Podhoretz; the complicated politics of Partisan Review and other fabled magazines of the period; and Trilling's relationships with other leading writers of the period, including Saul Bellow, Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer. In Life in Culture, edited by Adam Kirsch, Trilling's letters add up to an intimate portrait of a great critic, and of America's intellectual journey from the political passions of the 1930s to the cultural conflicts ofthe 1960s and beyond.
600 10$aTrilling, Lionel,$d1905-1975$vCorrespondence.
650 0$aCritics$zUnited States$vCorrespondence.
700 1 $aKirsch, Adam,$d1976-