F. R. Leavis

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Standard Name: Leavis, F. R.
Used Form: Frank Raymond Leavis

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Reception Edith Sitwell
This book drew accusations of plagiarism from F. R. Leavis , another critic with strong views as to what was valuable or otherwise in literature, but one whom ES despised. Her obituarist later noted that...
Residence Q. D. Leavis
Q. D. and F. R. Leavis moved to their last home, 12 Bulstrode Gardens in Cambridge.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
328
Textual Features Michelene Wandor
In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
125
The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL and her husband, F. R. Leavis , collaborated on critical projects throughout their careers. He called her my indispensable and only effective collaborator
qtd. in
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
309-10
for contributions bothher credited and uncredited.
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
Francis Mulhern in The Moment of "Scrutiny", 1979, argued that QDL 's Fiction and the Reading Public was the logical successor of F. R. Leavis 's first, slim publication, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson issued the textbookCulture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness—later judged so much indebted to QDLthat it is surprising her name did not appear on the title-page.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
208
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
In the year that F. R. Leavis issued his canonical treatment of canon development, The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, QDL called it in a letter my husband's, or rather our...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
F. R. Leavis published his essay collection The Common Pursuit (dedicated to QDL ). He wrote that she had helped him with the selection and arrangement of the essays.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2613 (29 February 1952): 149
qtd. in
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth, 1995.
79
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
After F. R. Leavis's death in 1978, QDL began to prepare a short memoir on him, to be included in an upcoming collection of his essays. She wrote notes and sketches for this, but left...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL and F. R. Leavis published their joint collection of literary criticism, Lectures in America.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1970
Kinch, M. B. et al. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1989.
16
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
Many studies of the Leavises' careers have been published, both during and after their lifetimes. These have concentrated mainly on F. R. Leavis , but Ian MacKillop in 1995 broke new ground in attention to QDL .
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
To mark the centenary of Charles Dickens 's death, QDL and F. R. Leavis published Dickens: The Novelist, their reassessment of his cultural significance, dedicated by each to the other.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
369, 372

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