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Q. D. Leavis was one of the finest critics of the novel. Her published essays appeared as articles and reviews of remarkable trenchancy in Scrutiny (of which she was effectively co-editor with her husband F. R. Leavis), or as lectures or as introductions to editions of classic novels. Now, for the first time, they have been collected and reprinted in three volumes. This volume collects her lecture 'The American Novel'; essays and lectures on Henry James, Hawthorne, Melville and Edith Wharton; and the lectures 'The French Novel', 'The Russian Novel' and 'The Italian Novel'. There is an introduction by the editor, Professor G. Singh. All the essays are informed by that broad 'sociological view of literature that caused Q. D. Leavis to ask how the novel rose and why it flourished.

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The great controversy that Mrs Humphry Ward was referring to was that of Protestantism and Catholicism; but this, though the main, was by no means the only religious dispute going on in the nineteenth century exploited by novelists, nor the only one arousing deep and bitter feelings.

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Title Q. D. Leavis: Collected Essays: Volume 2, the American Novel and Reflections on the European Novel
Author Q. D. Leavis; G. Singh (Editor)
Binding Hardback
Edition 1ST
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge:
Publication date July 26, 1985
ISBN 9780521267021 / 0521267021
Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.83 in (21.59 x 13.79 x 2.11 cm)
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 83001978
Dewey Decimal Code 823.009

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Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0521267021 . Edited by G. Singh. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in a very good (a bit faded along the spine, age toning) dust jacket. .

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