The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays / Lionel Trilling ; [introduction by Leon Wieseltier].

Author: Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975.

Imprint:Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.

Descriptionvii, 572 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:Originally published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Note:The America of John Dos Passos. - Hemingway and his critics. - T.S. Eliot's politics. - The immortality of ode. - Kipling. - Reality in America. - Art and neurosis. - Manners, morals, and the novel. - The Kinsey report. - Huckleberry Finn. - The Princess Casamassima. - Wordsworth and the Rabbis. - William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste. - The poet as hero: Keats in his letters. - George Orwell and the politics of truth. - The situation of the American intellectual at the present time. - Mansfield Park. - Isaac Babel. - The morality of inertia. - "That smile of Parmenides made me think". - The last lover. - A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode. - On the teaching of modern literature. - The Leavis-Snow controversy. - The fate of pleasure. - James Joyce in his letters. - Mind in the modern world. - Art, will, and necessity. - Why we read Jane Austen.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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