Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Journey AbandonedCondition: NewSubtitle: The Unfinished NovelISBN-10: 0231144504EAN: 9780231144506ISBN: 9780231144506Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/19/2008Description: In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy discovered a second novel-a clean, well-crafted "third" of a book that Trilling described as having "point, immediacy, warmth under control, drama, and even size." The Journey Abandoned was supposed to be a novel about the anomalies of heroic action in a conformist age. Instead, published here for the first time, it is a highly personal portrait of the life of letters in America. Jorris Buxton, the narrative's larger-than-life focus, is an elderly poet and novelist turned distinguished mathematical physicist. Modeled on the romantic poet Walter Savage Landor, Buxton is destined to embroil himself in a principled but somewhat absurd conflict, just as the aged Landor had, and through his folly complicate the lives of his admirers.These memorable characters include Garda Thorne, a beautiful short-story writer (and Buxton's former mistress); Harold Outram, the director of an influential private foundation and a compromised man of letters; Philip Dyas, the headmaster of a private school; the Hollowells, a wealthy, progressive couple; Marion Cathcart, a young woman of Outram's household; and Vincent Hammell, an untried literary man from the Midwest and Buxton's newly appointed biographer. Hammell is the central consciousness of the novel. A young man from the provinces, he is drawn from Trilling's own experience yet also indebted to the nineteenth-century bildungsroman, the literary form Trilling admired as a critic and emulated, in these pages, as a novelist. In her introduction, Murphy considers how The Journey Abandoned (which is her title) relates to the critical ideas Trilling articulated in his famous essay collection, The Liberal Imagination. She speculates that Henry James came to displace Landor as the model for Jorris Buxton, a development that may have both inspired and inhibited the writing of this novel.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Lionel TrillingContributor: Geraldine Murphy (Edited by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Journey Abandoned
Title: The Journey Abandoned
Subtitle: The Unfinished Novel
ISBN-10: 0231144504
EAN: 9780231144506
ISBN: 9780231144506
Release Date: 05/19/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Geraldine Murphy (Edited by)
Book Title: Journey Abandoned : the Unfinished Novel
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: General, Literary, American / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Lionel Trilling
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
