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F[RANK]. R[AYMOND]. LEAVIS (1895 - 1978)

CONFERENCES

• Re-reading Leavis, University of Cambridge, September 22, 2003

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Valuation in Criticism, and Other Essays.  Ed. G. Singh.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986.
  • The Critic as Anti-Philosopher: Essays and Papers.  Ed. G. Singh.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1982.
  • Letters in Criticism.  Ed. John Tasker.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1974.
  • Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1972.
  • Anna Karenina, and Other Essays.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.
  • The Common Pursuit.  London: Chatto, 1952.
• Edited Works:
  • Mill on Bentham and Coleridge.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1971.
  • A Selection from Scrutiny.  2 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1968.
  • Scrutiny: a Reprint.  20 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1963.
  • Determinations: Critical Essays.  Ed. and intro. F. R. Leavis.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1934.
  • Towards Standards of Criticism: Selections from 'The Calendar of Modern Letters,' 1925-1927.  London: London and Wishart, 1933.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Thoughts, Word and Creativity: Art and Thought in Lawrence.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1976.
  • The Living Principle: 'English' as a Discipline of Thought.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1975.
  • Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion, and Social Hope.  1972.
  • English Literature in Our Time and the University.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1969.
  • D. H. Lawrence: Novelist.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1955.
  • "The Responsible Critic: or the Function of Criticism at any Time."  Scrutiny (1953): .
  • The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1948.
  • Education and the University: a Sketch for an 'English School'.  Cambridge: CUP, 1943. 
  • "Literary Criticism and Philosophy."  Scrutiny 6 (June 1937): .
  • Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1936.
  • Culture and Environment: the Training of Critical Awareness.  By Leavis and Deny Thompson.  1933.
  • New Bearings in English Poetry: a Study of the Contemporary Situation.  London: Chatto and Windus,  1932.
  • D. H. Lawrence.  Cambridge: Minority Press, 1930.
  • Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture.  Cambridge: Minority Press, 1930.
  • "Towards Standards in Criticism."  1925. 
    • Towards Standards of Criticism: Selections from 'The Calendar of Modern Letters,' 1925-1927.  London: London and Wishart, 1933. 
    • Anna Karenina, and Other Essays.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.  219-234.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literary Criticism and Philosophy (1937)

  • Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture (1930): Excerpts

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • McKillop, Ian, and Richard Storer, eds.  F. R. Leavis: Essays and Documents.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Baldick, Chris.  The Social Mission of English Criticism.  London: Longman, 1983.

  • Bell, Michael.  F. R. Leavis.  1988.

  • Bilan, R. P.  The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis.  1979.

  • Boyers, Robert.  F. R. Leavis: Judgment and the Discipline of Thought.  U of Missouri P, 1978.

  • Day, Gary.  Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism. 

  • Ferns, John,  F. R. Leavis.  New York: Twayne, 2000.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Leavis and the Leavisites."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  176-182.

  • Hayman, Ronald.  Leavis.  London: Heinemann, 1979.

  • McKillop, Ian.  F. R. Leavis: a Life in Criticism.  London: Allen Lane, 1985.

  • Mulhern, Francis.  The Moment of 'Scrutiny'.  1979.

  • Robertson, P. J. M.  The Leavises on Fiction: an Historic Partnership.  1981.

  • Samson, Anne.  F. R. Leavis.  1992.

  • Singh, G.  F. R. Leavis.  London: Duckworth, 2003.

  • Sridhar, M.  Literary Theory and F. R. Leavis: Language, Criticism & Culture.  Prestige, 1999.

  • Storer, Richard.  F. R. Leavis.  London: Routledge, 2009.

  • Walsh, William.  F. R. Leavis.  1980.

On-Line:

• Allen, Brooke: Dr. Leavis, I Presume?  The Man who Put 'Critic' in Criticism Weekly Standard May 22, 2006

• Dean, Paul: The Last Critic: the Importance of F. R. Leavis New Criterion (1996)

• Film Encyclopedia: F. R. Leavis and Questions of Value

• Jarvis, Robin: F. R. Leavis (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Joyce, Chris: Meeting in Meaning Philosophy and Theory in the Work of F. R. Leavis Modern Age (2005)

• Kim, Tae-Chul: F. R. Leavis, or the Function of Criticism under Specialist Modernity

• New World Encyclopedia: Leavis, F. R.

• Pateman, Trevor: Morality and Art: the Claims of F. R. Leavis

• Ryan, Simon: Leavis and Life

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: F. R. Leavis

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