Placing Leavis
Geoffrey Hartman, 24 January 1985
The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions
edited by Denys Thompson.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £15, October 1984,0 521 25494 9 Show More
edited by Denys Thompson.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £15, October 1984,
The Social Mission of English Criticism: 1848-1932
by Chris Baldick.
Oxford, 264 pp., £19.50, August 1983,0 19 812821 5 Show More
by Chris Baldick.
Oxford, 264 pp., £19.50, August 1983,
Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980
by Fred Inglis.
Robertson, 253 pp., £16.50, November 1982,0 85520 328 5 Show More
by Fred Inglis.
Robertson, 253 pp., £16.50, November 1982,
“... for the great English novel. Keeping up the pretence of a ‘correspondence’ between equals, Steele and Addison – and a few others like them – removed matters of taste from the heat of religious and political controversy. Art, as Schiller was to argue in his Letters on Aesthetic Education, was not simply a higher form of play that restored the ... ”
