 | 21. Diana Trilling, "Lionel Trilling: A Jew at Columbia," in Lionel Trilling,
Speaking of Literature,
ed. Diana Trilling (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), 422.
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| 22. Sidney Hook, "Anti-Semitism in the Academy: Some Pages of the Past,"
Midstream
25 (January 1979): 5153.
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| 23. Alfred Kazin,
New York Jew
(New York: Knopf, 1978), 43.
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| 24. Diana Trilling, "Lionel Trilling," 413.
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| 25. Lionel Trilling,
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
(New York: Viking, 1950), 206207. One cannot quote from this essay without also noting Delmore Schwartz's devastating (and hilarious) critique, "The Duchess' Red Shoes." According to Schwartz, Trilling is not truly concerned with literature per se, but with "the ideas and attitudes and interests of the educated class, such as it is and such as it may become: it is of this class that he is, at heart, the guardian and critic." Thus Trilling misleadingly uses literary criticism as a medium for social criticism, and vice versa. More recent critics might argue that Schwartz is setting up a false dichotomy, but I still agree with his basic insight: to a great extent, Trilling is a social commentator in the guise of a literary critic. Arguably, it is a late version of "the ordeal of civility" that transformed him into such a figure. See
Selected Essays of Delmore Schwartz,
ed. David A. Dike & David. H. Zucker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 212.
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| 26. Lionel Trilling,
Sincerity and Authenticity
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 172.
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| 27. Lionel Trilling,
The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism
(New York: Viking, 1955), 128.
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| 28. Ibid., 131.
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| 29. Ibid., 143.
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| 30. Schechner,
After the Revolution,
57.
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| 31. Bloom,
Ruin the Sacred Truths,
4.
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| 32. Ibid., 161.
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