1st Edition

Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe And Other Stories of Literary Friendship

By Edward Alexander Copyright 2009
134 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This 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 Bertrand Russell, George Eliot and Emanuel Deutsch, Theodore Roethke and Robert Heilman. Chronologically the essays range from the early 1830s, when Carlyle and Mill discovered each other, to 1975, when... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: A Literary Friendship, 2. Prophets and Rationalists: A Combustible Combination—Thomas Carlyle and J. S. Mill; D. H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, 3. Theodore Roethke and Robert B. Heilman: The Poet and the Chairman, 4. George Eliot and Emanuel Deutsch: The Novelist and Her Rabbi, Index

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Edward Alexander