I agree, that that is very misleading.  When Trilling makes that statement, it annoyed me as well, until I read further and saw what he meant--love as a literary category not in the every day usage. 
 
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:19:13 -0400
From: nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nabokov and L. Trilling
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EDNote--Apologies: resending this, because I again forgot that AOL emails do not get distributed to all on the list.  -SB


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Re: [NABOKV-L] Nabokv and L. Trilling
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I must admit that I was influenced not only by Trilling's article itself but also by the fact that it gave the British publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson the opportunity to quote, misleadingly as I saw it, Trilling's statement that Lolita was about love not sex to promote the book.
 
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