A critical study of literary critic Q.D. Leavis's published and unpublished writings
By: G. Singh.
Series: Studies in British literature ;; v. 68
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Leavis, Q. D.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Ch. I Fiction and the Reading Public: A Sociological Approach to the Novel 21; title: II Jane Austen: Novelist of a Changing Society 41; title: III The Bronte Sisters: A Revolutionary Theory of the Novel 53; title: IV Dickens: A Tolstoyan Novelist before Tolstoy 67; title: V George Eliot: Novels as 'Deeply Serious Things' 87; title: VI Mrs Margaret Oliphant: Bridging the gap between Jane Austen and George Eliot 97; title: VII The Novel of Religious Controversy 111; title: VIII The Anglo-Irish Novel 123; title: IX The American Novel: Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton 133; title: X The European Novel: French, Russian and Italian 151; title: XI Folk Lore, Fairy Tales, Oral Tradition 173; title: XII Hans Christian Andersen: Voice of the Story-teller 193; title: XIII Q.D. Leavis and the making of Scrutiny 209; title: XIV Q.D. Leavis and F.R. Leavis: the Nature of Creative Collaboration 239; title: XV Q.D. Leavis: Last Years (A Personal Memoir) 261.