Looking for Trilling's Intro to 1984

[Allan Balliett]

Trillings papers are archived at Columbia.

It looks like many of them are accessible on-line

Please let us know when something works out!

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_4079615

Allan in WV

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 7:09 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have access to the online archives but a search isn't bringing up
> anything. If you knew the date I could find it manually.
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:54 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The New Yorker, A Critic at Large September 29, 2008 Issue
>> Regrets Only
>> Lionel Trilling and his discontents.
>> By Louis Menand
>>
>> The paragraph below appears in the NYRB reprint of Trilling's _TLI_
>> with Introduction by Louis Menand.
>>
>> “The Liberal Imagination” was a Cold War book. It appeared at the same
>> political moment as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,’s “The Vital Center”
>> (1949), George Orwell’s “1984” (1949), and Richard Crossman’s “The God
>> That Failed” (1950)—books that helped make the case for liberal
>> anti-Communism. Trilling was certainly a liberal anti-Communist.
>> Orwell was one of his heroes: he reviewed “1984” in The New Yorker,
>> and called the book “momentous.” And he was prominently associated
>> with Partisan Review, which had been the journalistic home of the
>> anti-Communist left since 1937. Five of the sixteen essays in “The
>> Liberal Imagination” first appeared in Partisan Review; a sixth is
>> about Partisan Review. (The book is being reprinted this fall by New
>> York Review Books.)
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Allan Balliett
>> <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's not Trilling's review in The Nation? -Allan in WV
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:03 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, it's not an Introduction but a Review of the novel by Trilling
>> >> in the New Yorker. I've lots on the Review and its significance,
>> >> including an essay by Louis Menand, the Introduction to Trilling's
>> >> _The Liberal Imagination_, but I can't locate the Review.
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:00 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Looked online but no luck. Anyone?
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