A Selection from Scrutiny: Volume 2

Volume 2 of A Selection from Scrutiny opens with Mrs Leavis's much quoted studies, which together form 'A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings'.

F. R. Leavis (Edited by)

9780521095099, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 1968

332 pages
22.4 x 14.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

Volume 2 of A Selection from Scrutiny opens with Mrs Leavis's much quoted studies, which together form 'A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings'. There follows a section of reviews of novelists (Dorothy Richardson, Gissing, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Henry James), and Mrs Leavis's study of Edith Wharton. Then there are three of James Smith's essays: the celebrated 'Preliminary Survey' of Wordsworth; the equally celebrated 'On Metaphysical Poetry' and the study of As You Like It. A section on 'The English Tradition' reprints studies of Jefferies, Beatrice Webb, Sturt and Piers Plowman.

1. Jane Austen
2. Novelists Reviewed
3. Henry James's Heiress
4. Wordsworth
5. On Metaphysical Poetry
6. 'As you like it'
7. Revaluation: John Webster
8. The English Tradition
9. The History of Critical Journalism
10. The Responsible Critic
11. Valedictory.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]