The Great Tradition

by F.R. Leavis

Book Overview

'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition , an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571243622
• ISBN13: 9780571243624
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"