Dickens, the novelist, Leavis, F. R

Leavis, F. R

ISBN 10: 0394468600 / ISBN 13: 9780394468600

Published by Pantheon Books, 1971

About this Item

1970 Pantheon hard cover - stated 1st American Edition - price clipped - minor staining to page edge - otherwise dust jacket cover and binding fine contents clean - enjoy.

Seller Inventory # 0B-ADY2-3SC9

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dickens, the novelist, Leavis, F. R
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394468600
• ISBN 13: 9780394468600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 22 ounces

About this title

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 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.