Claremont Essays
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A landmark collection of cultural and literary criticism, Claremont Essays gathers Diana Trilling's most penetrating essays into a single, formidable volume. Trilling, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative critical voices, argues with unflinching intelligence across a remarkable range of subjects — from a memorial tribute to President Kennedy and a reassessment of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, to sharp analyses of Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and the Oppenheimer Case. She dissects the moral radicalism of Norman Mailer, examines Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, and confronts Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with the same rigorous standards she applies to the cultural significance of Marilyn Monroe's death. Written with clarity, moral seriousness, and a rare willingness to challenge prevailing intellectual fashions, this collection presents American mid-century intellectual life at its most searching and vital.
Author: Diana Trilling
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A landmark collection of cultural and literary criticism, Claremont Essays gathers Diana Trilling's most penetrating essays into a single, formidable volume. Trilling, one of the twentieth century's most authoritative critical voices, argues with unflinching intelligence across a remarkable range of subjects — from a memorial tribute to President Kennedy and a reassessment of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, to sharp analyses of Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and the Oppenheimer Case. She dissects the moral radicalism of Norman Mailer, examines Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, and confronts Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with the same rigorous standards she applies to the cultural significance of Marilyn Monroe's death. Written with clarity, moral seriousness, and a rare willingness to challenge prevailing intellectual fashions, this collection presents American mid-century intellectual life at its most searching and vital.