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The Untold Journey - Natalie Robins

The Untold Journey

The Life of Diana Trilling

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
424 Seiten
2017
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
9780231182089 (ISBN)
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The first biography to foreground one of the most vivid figures and uncompromising cultural critics of the mid-twentieth century.
Throughout her life, Diana Trilling (1905-1996) wrote about profound social changes with candor and wisdom, first for The Nation and later for Partisan Review, Harpers, and such popular magazines as Vogue and McCalls. She went on to publish five books, including the best-selling Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, written when she was in her late seventies. She was also one half of one of the most famous intellectual couples in the United States. Diana Trilling's life with Columbia University professor and literary critic Lionel Trilling was filled with secrets, struggles, and betrayals, and she endured what she called her "own private hell" as she fought to reconcile competing duties and impulses at home and at work. She was a feminist, yet she insisted that women's liberation created unnecessary friction with men, asserting that her career ambitions should be on equal footing with caring for her child and supporting her husband. She fearlessly expressed sensitive, controversial, and moral views, and fought publicly with Lillian Hellman, among other celebrated writers and intellectuals, over politics.
Diana Trilling was an anticommunist liberal, a position often misunderstood, especially by her literary and university friends. And finally, she was among the "New Journalists" who transformed writing and reporting in the 1960s, making her nonfiction as imaginative in style and scope as a novel. The first biographer to mine Diana Trilling's extensive archives, Natalie Robins tells a previously undisclosed history of an essential member of New York City culture at a time of dynamic change and intellectual relevance.

Natalie Robins is the author of four books of poetry and five works of nonfiction, among them Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine (2005); The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals (1995); and Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (1992), which won the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award. She lives with her husband in New York City.

Preface 1. Escape Into Fiction 2. Undertakings 3. Prolegomenon 4. Isolation and Desperation 5. The Rest of Our Lives 6. The Greatest Service 7. The Nation Calls 8. Not Merely a Critic's Wife 9. Glowing 10. Oh Be Brave 11. Guilt Makes Us Human 12. Weaving 13. Subversive Sex 14. A Limited Kind of Celebrity 15. At a Table 16. Just Close Your Eyes 17. Not Giving a Damn 18. Her Own Place 19. Re-creation and Imagination Epilogue: Arcadia Acknowledgments Source Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Zusatzinfo 30 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-13 9780231182089 / 9780231182089
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