Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe
Subtitle: and other stories of literary friendship
By: Edward Alexander.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781412810142
Subjects: Trilling, Lionel, -- 1905-1975 -- Friends and associates; Howe, Irving -- Friends and associates
Description: "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.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, George Eliot and Emanuel Deutsch, Theodore Roethke and Robert Heilman. Chronologically the essays range from the early 1830s, when Carlyle and Mill discovered each other, to 1975, when Lionel Trilling died."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.