Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe - And Other Stories of Literary Friendship

Informationen zum Autor Edward Alexander Klappentext Reveals fresh perspectives on leading literary figures and their relationships! and shows how personal friendship influences art. This book examines Trilling and Howe in relation to one another! as well as their comparative reactions to the Holocaust. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward Alexander, Alexander Edward
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2009
• EAN: 9781412810142
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-1014-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Biography: writers, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities