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Modernity and its Discontents: George Scialabba's The Modern Predicament

The Millions - Jan 24, 2012
Dwight Macdonald, Nicola Chiaromonte, Lionel Trilling, Randolph Bourne, Irving Howe. He is a counterargument to his own claims about generalists. Reading George Scialabba emphasizes the need for more George Scialabbas.

The story of a 104-year-old life: 'Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind ...

Washington Post - Jan 19, 2012
For many years he taught “Great Books” at his alma mater — often in tandem with his friend the literary critic Lionel Trilling — and later became Columbia's provost. He lectured at universities around the country, translated occasionally, ...

The Afterlife of the Lion

Wall Street Journal - Jan 13, 2012
Others soon joined the parade, among them Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman, Philip Rahv and Leon Edel—Jews, one might say, not for Jesus but for James. The last named among these critics, Leon Edel, is the monopolist of Mr. Anesko's title.

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Ethan Frome

by: Edith Wharton

This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.

It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton's private correspondence and writings and biographical accounts of the author.
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The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling

by: 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 modern times: Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill, Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Buchan, Walter Bagehot and the Knox brothers, Michael Oakeshott and Lionel Trilling. In their distinctive ways, Ms. Himmelfarb argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the moral imagination.
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