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Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling by Lionel Trilling 9781250234704
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $41.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234704Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $42.44"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the... -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Middle Of The Journey by Lionel Trilling 9781590170151
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $41.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170151Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.15A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and... -
The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel by Lionel Trilling 9780231144513
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy... -
E.M. Forster: Critical Guidebook by Lionel Trilling 9780811202107
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.91"The modern novel in its most cogent and permanent form"--this has been the achievement of E. M. Forster; his masterpiece, A Passage to India, belongs with perhaps three or four other works in... -
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to... -
The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling by Gertrude Himmelfarb 9781442218291
Booksplease Price: $91.90In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of... -
Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli 9780822362111
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to... -
Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship by Edward Alexander 9781138511682
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairing intellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, but also Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D. H. Lawrence and... -
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism by Michael Kimmage 9780674032583
RRP: $115.40Booksplease Price: $95.13The Conservative Turn tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945–1965 Michael Kalisch 9781399526876
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.78The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined... -
American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth by Professor Peter Rawlings 9780415285445
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43The American theorists: Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth have revolutionized our understanding of narrative and have each championed the novel as an art form. Concepts from their work... -
The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells by Daniel Born 9780807845448
Booksplease Price: $84.40The author of this study explores the concept of liberal guilt as it first developed in British political and literary culture between the late-Romantic period and World War I. Disturbed by the twin... -
Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times Samuel Moyn 9780300280128
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By... -
The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity Alan Wolfe 9780226679112
Booksplease Price: $37.15How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done... -
Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals by John Rodden 9780252081941
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the... -
The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity Alan Wolfe 9780226555164
Booksplease Price: $42.25How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done... -
Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals by John Rodden
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the... -
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance by Jeffrey B. Ferguson
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of... -
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant... -
Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination by Mark Krupnick 9780299214401
Booksplease Price: $54.47This book contains deeply personal dialogues with Jewish American writers, from Mark Krupnick in his final work. When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark... -
Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy by John Rodden 9781594510250
RRP: $155.38Booksplease Price: $142.25The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad... -
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691228419
Booksplease Price: $42.29The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History by David A. Hollinger
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.92This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range... -
Note Book Jeff Nunokawa 9780691166490
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $51.41"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every... -
Wallace Stevens and the Actual World by Alan Filreis 9780691603766
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the... -
The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945 by 9780299107147
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review - often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America - during its formative years, giving a lucid and... -
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene by Aidan Wasley 9780691136790
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes,... -
Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism by Langdon Hammer 9780691605838
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $87.53Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a... -
Jane Austen: Emma by David Lodge 9780333533666
Booksplease Price: $72.39David Lodge's Emma was one of the first Macmillan Casebooks and has proved one of the most popular. Three new essays have been added in this new edition, reflecting new critical approaches such as... -
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Stephen F. Eisenman 9780691175256
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $83.43A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively unknown... -
Pride and Authenticity by Ulrich Steinvorth 9783319341163
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will,... -
The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture by Giles Gunn 9780195056426
Booksplease Price: $72.18This important new work is at once a provocative defence of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that... -
English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism by M. H. Abrams 9780195019469
Booksplease Price: $58.55This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan... -
American Fiction in the Cold War by Thomas Hill Schaub 9780299128449
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86We tried as hard as we could to believe that politics might be idyl, only to discover that what we took to be a political pastoral was really a grim military campaign or a murderous betrayal of... -
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $51.43The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between...