The moral obligation to be intelligent
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Lionel Trilling ; [introduction by Leon Wieseltier].
Contributors: Wieseltier, Leon.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780810124882
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Originally published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

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