Dickens: the novelist, - Hardcover

Leavis, F.R.; Leavis, Q.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701116447 ISBN 13: 9780701116446

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1970

Synopsis

Eight articles on aspects of Dickens' novels, including one on the function of illustrations i.e. in the original publication in Dickens who admired Hogarth and sometimes deprecated Cruikshank . Occasional pencil markings; jacket slightly worn, chipped. xviii, 371 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

About this title

About the Author:

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establishment. In 1932 he and his wife Queenie Roth founded the hugely influential journal Scrutiny, which ran until 1953. He was one of the most important figures in the development of modern literary criticism, and in the elevation of English as a serious academic subject. He died in 1978.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0701116447
• ISBN 13: 9780701116446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 371