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.
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, No. 1, pp. 125-6.
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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...
Occupation Q. D. Leavis
On invitation from the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what...
Intertextuality and Influence Q. D. Leavis
This book was conceptualized as a sequel to the dissertation of her husband F. R. Leavis , completed in 1924, The Relationship of Journalism to Literature: Studied in the Rise and Earlier Development of the...
Occupation Q. D. Leavis
Q. D. and F. R. Leavis travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell and Harvard .
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
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Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
Much later estimates continued to assimilate Q. D.'s work to that of F. R., and to repeat the original Lucas estimate. Near the end of QDL 's life, Francis Mulhern in The Moment of "Scrutiny"...
Occupation Q. D. Leavis
Working again through the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis lectured on Austen , Eliot , and Yeats in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna.
Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth.
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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
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
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for contributions bothher credited and uncredited.
Family and Intimate relationships Q. D. Leavis
F. R. Leavis , husband of QDL , died after nearly fifty years of marriage and nearly a year of suffering from black-outs, exhaustion and sad loss of reason.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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 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.
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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...

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.