Lionel Trilling

• Jun-2008

In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "thir...

• Sep-2002

Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political tu...

• Oct-1980

• Oct-1980

• Sep-1980

Trilling studies late nineteenthand early twentieth-century European culture, looking at the whole range of Western thought from Rousseau and Jane Austen to Freud and Hegel to discuss and criticize the moral ideals of sincerity and authenticity...