Author Series 16 - Theorist Lionel Trilling

Author series 16 - Theorist

Lionel Trilling

* July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975

* American literary critic

* 1937, Trilling joined the recently revived magazine Partisan Review, a Marxist, but anti-Stalinist, journal.

* In his preface to the essays collection, Beyond Culture (1965), Trilling defended the New York Intellectuals.

Works by Trilling

Fiction

 • The Middle of the Journey.

 

 • The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel.

Non-fiction and essays

 

 • Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture

 • Gathering of Fugitives.

 • Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning.

 • Sincerity and Authenticity.

 • Mind in the Modern World

 • The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965–75.

 • Speaking of Literature and Society.

 • The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays.

 •  Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling.

Prefaces, afterwords, and commentaries

 • Introduction to Austen, Jane  Emma. 

 

 • Introduction to Jones, Ernest (1961). The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud