Lionel Trilling & Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship

by Edward Alexander

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.The essay that gives this volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412810140
• ISBN13: 9781412810142
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"