Kazin's Trilling: A Cold War Portrait.

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Abstract
This essay describes the eminent Americanist, critic, and New York intellectual, Alfred Kazin's creation of a Lionel Trilling "character" in his 1978 autobiography, , and his use of that character to critique significant features of the country's Cold War literary culture. Among these are: the narrowing and hardening of intellectual discourse in a cultural-political climate dominated by the "liberal consensus," the discrediting of the progressive impulse in American writing, the subordination of "class" to "culture" in evaluations of American writers, and the changing status of Jews and Jewish writers in post-war America. Tapping into strong personal feelings, Kazin creates in Trilling a harsh, thoughtful and compelling portrait of an era.
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Authors Cook, Richard M;
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Year 2018
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10.1007/s12115-018-0301-7
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autobiography alfred kazin class and culture cold war diana trilling lionel trilling matthew arnold new york jew walt whitman

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