The Liberal Imagination (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lionel Trilling
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Literary criticism/essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Ideology, Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Writing, Creative process, Liberalism
Form and Content
Following the publication of his monumental study of Matthew Arnold, in 1939, Lionel Trilling, then a professor at Columbia University, found himself much in demand as a literary critic. In the Arnoldian mold, he had many opinions about the connections between literature and society. In response to the demand, and to his own slowly matured ideas about the proper function of literary criticism, Trilling published a series of essays during the 1940’s, on a variety of subjects and for various occasions, all of them marked by the same serious concern with the...
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