F. R. Leavis

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

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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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender</span> by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, pp. 125-6.
125
The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...
Reception Dylan Thomas
Though Thomas's reputation has often been assailed (by the Movement poets, by F. R. Leavis , by Welsh nationalists), he now rests in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; a first edition of Under Milk...
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...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson issued the textbook Culture 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.
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...
Reception Q. D. Leavis
With some minor exceptions, interactions between QDL and Virginia Woolf were hostile. Both Leavises regularly took up an anti-Bloomsbury stance in their lecturing and writing. After reading QDL 's review, Woolf remarked in her...
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
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
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.
1970
Kinch, M. B. et al. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland.
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.
369, 372
Author summary Q. D. Leavis
In her socio-anthropological critical monographs and essays, QDL evaluates literature by examining it in the context of the culture from which it emerges. She focuses on intellectual, social, and moral elements of literary work, and...
Cultural formation Q. D. Leavis
QDL lived all of her life in London and Cambridge. Herself of Jewish, Polish, and German heritage, she was intensely concerned with English writers, readers, and notions of Englishness. She had a lasting...
Friends, Associates Q. D. Leavis
Two of her contemporaries as undergraduates were Muriel Bradbrook (at Girton) and William Empson (whom her future husband, F. R. Leavis , came to admire especially).
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
85-6, 100

Timeline

May 1932: F. R. Leavis launched his critical periodical...

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May 1932

F. R. Leavis launched his criticalperiodicalScrutiny as a quarterly published at Cambridge; it ran until October 1953. His wife, Q. D. Leavis , was co-editor, though not named in the masthead.

By May 1952: Cambridge academic F. R. Leavis published...

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By May 1952

Cambridge academic F. R. Leavis published his influential book of criticism The Common Pursuit.

October 1953: Scrutiny, the critical periodical published...

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October 1953

Scrutiny, the criticalperiodical published at Cambridge by F. R. Leavis (with his wife, Q. D. Leavis , as silent co-editor), published its final issue.

1 October 1954: In the Movement, a leading article in the...

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1 October 1954

In the Movement, a leading article in the Spectator, identified a newly sceptical and debunking tendency in modern British poetry, opposed to social hierarchy and cultural authority, including that of modernism.

May 1959: C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at...

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May 1959

C. P. Snow gave the year's Rede Lecture at Cambridge University : The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

Texts

Leavis, F. R., and Denys Thompson. Culture and Environment. Chatto and Windus, 1933.
Leavis, F. R., and Q. D. Leavis. Dickens: The Novelist. Chatto and Windus, 1970.
Leavis, F. R., and Q. D. Leavis. Lectures in America. Chatto and Windus, 1969.
Knight, L. C., and F. R. Leavis, editors. Scrutiny. Deighton, Bell.
Leavis, F. R. The Common Pursuit. Chatto and Windus, 1952.
Leavis, F. R. The Great Tradition. Chatto and Windus, 1948.