{"product_id":"the-humanist-critic-daniel-rosenberg-nutters-9781839991592","title":"The Humanist Critic: Lionel Trilling and Edward Said","description":"Assessments of the history of literary criticism suffer from two errors. On one hand, they often ignore the relationship between critical history and literary history. On the other hand, they tend to assume a progressive vision of history where literary movements or critical schools of thought build upon each other. As a result, such assessments either privilege the present and praise its progress or express nostalgia for the past. \u003cem\u003eThe Humanist Critic: Lionel Trilling and Edward Said\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the poverty of these tendencies. By examining the careers of two of the most significant figures in literary-critical history, it demonstrates how Said inherits and revises an older style of criticism that Trilling practices, and conversely, we see how Trilling anticipates future directions in criticism that Said will scrutinize. At the same time, \u003cem\u003eThe Humanist Critic\u003c\/em\u003e argues that developments in critical history and developments in literary modernism represent a parallel story. Recognizing these intertwined narratives is key to lessening the perceived antagonism between modernism, continental critical theory, and what each presumably displaced. \u003cem\u003eThe Humanist Critic \u003c\/em\u003ethus studies the influence of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Mann on Trilling and the influence of Joseph Conrad and Gerard Manley Hopkins on Said while also putting the careers of Trilling and Said in dialogue with structuralist and deconstructive thought. \u003cem\u003eThe Humanist Critic \u003c\/em\u003eis ultimately a focused genealogy of literary studies; a study of influence; a critique of current trends in critical culture; and a renewed justification for the humanist vocation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Rosenberg Nutters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839991593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839991592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Daniel Rosenberg Nutters","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47136520470783,"sku":"9781839991592","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_875e447b-b2c6-40b2-a49d-22ca75054269.jpg?v=1755023596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-humanist-critic-daniel-rosenberg-nutters-9781839991592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}