Speaking of Literature and SocietyLionel Trilling, Diana Trilling The fifty-nine previously uncollected short essays and reviews in this book span the writer's entire career. The chronological arrangement here shows that Trilling continually returned to the subjects of Marxism, modernism and religious and social identity. The twelfth and final volume in the uniform edition is framed with two personal reminiscenes by the editor. |
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Editors Foreword V | 3 |
Another Jewish Problem Novel 1929 | 16 |
The Social Emotions 1930 | 34 |
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