The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions
- Author: Denys Thompson
- Date Published: April 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521129152
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F. R. Leavis died in 1978 and his wife Q. D. Leavis in 1981, and with their deaths ended one of the most productive and influential literary partnerships in the language. This volume is a collection of reminiscences by people who knew Queenie Leavis as fellow students at Girton, were early pupils of Frank Raymon Leavis, collaborated in the editing of Scrutiny, or were colleagues or friends later. The collection, which is illustrated, is full of rich and fresh biographical information. Since it covers such a wide span, it brings out the contrast between the young couple at the beginning of their careers, good-looking, hopeful and confident; and the embattled veterans in seemingly endless conflict even with their friends and supporters. It also suggests the mercurial nature of both, since they could seem so widely different to different people, and to the very end both could exert formidable charm. Denys Thompson, who edited this volume, was an early pupil of Leavis's, and collaborated with him on Culture and Environment in the 1930s.
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- Date Published: April 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521129152
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.29kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Denys Thompson
2. Queenie at Girton Gwendolen Freeman
3. 6, Chesterton Hall Crescent, and the early years Mary Pitter
4. 'Nor shall my sword': the Leavises' mythology M. C. Bradbrook
5. Teacher and friend Denys Thompson
6. Charisma? Raymond O'Malley
7. F. R. Leavis: a memoir Sebastian Moore
8. Scrutiny and F. R. L.: a personal memoir L. C. Knights
9. On being F. R. Leavis's publisher Ian Parsons
10. The long pursuit Michael Black
11. Round and about the Pelican Guide to English Literature Boris Ford
12. Seeing a man running Raymond Williams
13. Taking tea with Mrs Leavis Nora Crook
14. Some recollections of the Leavises Michael Tanner
15. F. R. Leavis and the schools Frank Whitehead
16. F. R. Leavis and the sources of hope David Holbrook
17. Leavis: an appreciation John Harvey
Note: Leavis at school
18. No compromise D. W. Harding
Contributors
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