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Literature & Fiction

Leavis, F.R.

Essays & Correspondence

Chatto&Windus

D. H. Lawrence, novelist (Pelican books)

Penguin

Great Tradition

Penguin Uk

D H Lawrence Novelist

In The Great Tradition, published in 1948, F. R. Leavis seemed to rate  the work of Charles Dickens - with the exception of Hard Times - as  lacking the seriousness and formal control of the true masters of  English fiction. By 1970, when Dickens the Novelist was published on the  first centenary of the writer's death, Leavis and his lifelong  collaborator Q. D. (Queenie) Leavis, had changed their minds. 'Our  purpose', they wrote, 'is to enforce as unanswerably as possible the  conviction that Dickens was one of the greatest of creative writers ...'  In seven typically robust and uncompromising chapters, the Leavises  grapple with the evaluation of a writer who was then still open to  dismissal as a mere entertainer, a caricaturist not worthy of discussion  in the same breath as Henry James. Q. D. Leavis shows, for example, how  deeply influential David Copperfield was on the work of Tolstoy, and  explores the symbolic richness of the nightmare world of Bleak House. F.  R. Leavis reprints his famous essay on Hard Times, with its moral  critique of utilitarianism, and reveals the imaginative influence of  Blake on Little Dorrit. Q. D. Leavis contributes a pathbreaking chapter  on the importance of Dickens's illustrators to the effect of his work.

Dickens: The Novelist

In The Great Tradition, published in 1948, F. R. Leavis seemed to rate the work of Charles Dickens - with the exception of Hard Times - as lacking the seriousness and formal control of the true masters of English fiction. By 1970, when Dickens the Novelist was published on the first centenary of the writer's death, Leavis and his lifelong collaborator Q. D. (Queenie) Leavis, had changed their minds. 'Our purpose', they wrote, 'is to enforce as unanswerably as possible the conviction that Dickens was one of the greatest of creative writers ...' In seven typically robust and uncompromising chapters, the Leavises grapple with the evaluation of a writer who was then still open to dismissal as a mere entertainer, a caricaturist not worthy of discussion in the same breath as Henry James. Q. D. Leavis shows, for example, how deeply influential David Copperfield was on the work of Tolstoy, and explores the symbolic richness of the nightmare world of Bleak House. F. R. Leavis reprints his famous essay on Hard Times, with its moral critique of utilitarianism, and reveals the imaginative influence of Blake on Little Dorrit. Q. D. Leavis contributes a pathbreaking chapter on the importance of Dickens's illustrators to the effect of his work.

Dickens, the novelist,

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pantheon Books

This book was first published by Cambridge in 1979. It is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is in the first place a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university. Leavis is concerned with English Literature as a living reality, with the need for 'keeping alive, potent and developing the full human consciousness of ends and values and human nature that comes to us out of the long creative continuity of our culture'. Responsibility for maintaining this continuity, Leavis argues, can only be borne by a university with a strong humane centre - and English school, defined as a collaborative community of students and teachers. Leavis's concern, however, extends further than the question of university education, for he sees the university simply as one nucleus of a wider spiritual community that should form the mind and conscience of the country. This book will remain of interest to readers today.

English Literature in our Time and the University: The Clark Lectures 1967

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

<p>Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a liberal education. Deeply disturbed by this state of affairs, Leavis puts forward a proposal for a University English School which would offer a programme of liberal studies designed to bring various disciplines into relation without promoting superficiality. This in turn leads him to consider the wider issue of the idea of a university in modern society as a 'focus of the finer life of cultural tradition'. 'Such prepotency,' he writes in the preface, 'as this country may hope for in the English-speaking world of the future must lie in the cultural realm, and ... in the performance of this function the universities have an essential part'.</p>

Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School'

History & Criticism

<p>This book was first published by Cambridge in 1979. It is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is in the first place a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university. Leavis is concerned with English Literature as a living reality, with the need for 'keeping alive, potent and developing the full human consciousness of ends and values and human nature that comes to us out of the long creative continuity of our culture'. Responsibility for maintaining this continuity, Leavis argues, can only be borne by a university with a strong humane centre - and English school, defined as a collaborative community of students and teachers. Leavis's concern, however, extends further than the question of university education, for he sees the university simply as one nucleus of a wider spiritual community that should form the mind and conscience of the country. This book will remain of interest to readers today.</p>

English Literature in our Time and the University: The Clark Lectures 1967 (Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge University; 1967)

This volume gathers together some of F. R. Leavis's earliest work with the things he was working on before his death, as well as a representative sample of pieces reflecting the concerns he developed throughout his writing life. This material, from the whole span of a long writing career, shows both the continuity of his pre-occupations and important respects in which his judgements changed. In an introductory essay Professor Singh discusses each piece and relates it to the development of Leavis's ideas. The reader can trace his concern for standards of critical valuation as it evolved through studies of T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, William Empson, George Eliot, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, I. A. Richards and others. Leavis's well-known reflections on Marxism are also included.

Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays

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