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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Dickens: the Novelist to cart. $9.94, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1970 by Chatto & Windus.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0701116447.
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Add this copy of Dickens the Novelist to cart. $16.85, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1973 by Chatto & Windus.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0701116447.
Add this copy of Dickens the Novelist to cart. $33.03, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1970 by Chatto & Windus.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. A clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. Previous owners dust jacket. Clothbound in brown. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
Add this copy of Dickens the Novelist to cart. $16.68, good condition, Sold by Seagull Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hove, EAST SUSSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Faber and Faber.
Add this copy of Dickens the Novelist to cart. $48.95, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Rutgers University Press.
Add this copy of Dickens the Novelist (Faber Finds) [Paperback] Leavis, to cart. $52.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Faber and Faber.
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Very Good. 1970 Pantheon hard cover-1st American Edition 1st printing-slight staining to page edge-otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean-a very nice copy-enjoy.
Add this copy of Dickens: the Novelist, to cart. $116.99, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Chatto & Windus.
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