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Book Synopsis Dickens the Novelist by : F. R. Leavis
Download or read book Dickens the Novelist written by F. R. Leavis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis F.R. Leavis and Charles Dickens by : John Kelly
Download or read book F.R. Leavis and Charles Dickens written by John Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens in the Literary Criticism of F.R. Leavis by : John Kelly
Download or read book Charles Dickens in the Literary Criticism of F.R. Leavis written by John Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Tradition by : F. R. Leavis
Download or read book The Great Tradition written by F. R. Leavis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles out Hard Times as Dickens' one 'completely serious work of art'; while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. '[Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read... the whole business of criticism acquired a new and exhilarating quality.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
Book Synopsis Dickens the Novelist by : Frank Raimund Leavis
Download or read book Dickens the Novelist written by Frank Raimund Leavis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection which brings together perhaps the four finest of Charles Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the brilliance of his story-telling.
Download or read book F.R. Leavis written by Richard Storer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education F.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. His outspoken and confrontational work has often divided opinion and continues to generate interest as students and critics revisit his highly influential texts. Looking closely at a representative selection of Leavis’s work, Richard Storer outlines his thinking on key topics such as: literary theory, ‘criticism’ and culture canon formation modernism close reading higher education. Exploring the responses and engaging with the controversies generated by Leavis’s work, this clear, authoritative guide highlights how Leavis remains of critical significance to twenty-first-century study of literature and culture.
Book Synopsis The Critic as Anti-philosopher by : Frank Raymond Leavis
Download or read book The Critic as Anti-philosopher written by Frank Raymond Leavis and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the century's great critics. His concerns here are with the predicaments of contemporary civilization, the idea of the university as a creative center, and the nature of thought in creative writing.
Book Synopsis The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis by : R. P. Bilan
Download or read book The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis written by R. P. Bilan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis and assessment of the many strands of Leavis's work, emphasising the basic unity of his ideas.
Book Synopsis Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth by : Badri Raina
Download or read book Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth written by Badri Raina and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his works, from Oliver Twist to Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens reveals a continuum of artistic as well as social development over a period of four decades. In this highly original study, Badri Raina relates Dickens' novels thoroughly to one another, illuminating the works by seeing them in terms of the author's changing social outlook, personal attitudes, and aesthetic practice. Raina's book will fascinate readers of Dickens, and will serve social historians as well. The unifying point of Raina's study is Dickens' ambivalence toward respectable Victorian bourgeois society; he criticized the bourgeois myths of unbridled success and achievement through aggressive individualism, yet wished to be a great success himself. Raina argues that Dickens projected this personal ambivalence through the creation of key characters and combinations of characters in his novels, creating also a continual movement toward self-awareness and self-criticism. This personal movement, argues Raina, found expression in a steady improvement in the quality of Dickens' art. Two of the most interesting issues in Dickens studies--that of his development as a novelist and that of his mass appeal in combination with towering aesthetic achievement--are both addressed thoroughly in this lucid and highly readable book. By following common threads of plot and character through the novels, Raina demonstrates how Dickens matured both socially and artistically, until in his last finished novel, Our Mutual Friend, social values that were earlier espoused (for instance, in Oliver Twist) were wholly and willingly rejected. Raina's critical procedure illuminates not just the career of a Victorian novelist, but one who embraces, traverses, and evaluates the social climate of a critical period of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman by : David Holbrook
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman written by David Holbrook and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. Clearly the Victorian problem - which was man's problem as much as it was woman's - was that of bringing the ideal woman and the libidinal woman together. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister, but why? And why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems.
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend by : Sean Grass
Download or read book Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend written by Sean Grass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens’s death. Enhanced by four appendices that offer contemporary accounts of the Staplehurst railway accident, information on archival materials, transcripts of all of the contemporary reviews, and a select bibliography of editions, Grass’s book shows why this last of Dickens’s finished novels continues to intrigue its readers and critics.
Download or read book The Complex Fate written by Marius Bewley and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Precious Lives by : Steve Morris
Download or read book Our Precious Lives written by Steve Morris and published by Rediscovering Faith Life And Everything. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by : Robert McCrum
Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Book Synopsis Pleasures of Benthamism by : Kathleen Blake
Download or read book Pleasures of Benthamism written by Kathleen Blake and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in Victorian literature and culture through the writings of Bentham, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, and others.
