Untold Journey - The Life of Diana Trilling

The first biography to foreground one of the most vivid figures and uncompromising cultural critics of the mid-twentieth century.

List of contents

Preface
1. Escape Into Fiction
2. Undertakings
3. Prolegomenon
4. Isolation and Desperation
5. The Rest of Our Lives
6. The Greatest Service
7. The Nation Calls
8. Not Merely a Critic's Wife
9. Glowing
10. Oh Be Brave
11. Guilt Makes Us Human
12. Weaving
13. Subversive Sex
14. A Limited Kind of Celebrity
15. At a Table
16. Just Close Your Eyes
17. Not Giving a Damn
18. Her Own Place
19. Re-creation and Imagination
Epilogue: Arcadia
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Natalie Robins is the author of four books of poetry and five works of nonfiction, among them Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine (2005); The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals (1995); and Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (1992), which won the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award. She lives with her husband in New York City.

Summary

The first biography to foreground one of the most vivid figures and uncompromising cultural critics of the mid-twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Robins, Natalie S. Robins, Robins Natalie
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780231182089
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18208-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies