The Great Tradition: George Eliot; Henry James; Joseph Conrad (Penguin Literary Criticism)

by F . R . Leavis (Author)

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  1993

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  The criticism of F.R. Leavis has always been notable for its uncompromising association of literature and morality. That association in large part explains his reasons for placing five novelists - five only - within the great tradition of English fiction - Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and D.H. Lawrence. Here, after an introductory essay on the great tradition as a whole, he deals with Eliot, James and Conrad, and in an appendix, with Hard Times , which he considers the one work of Dickens's that has the strength of a completely serious work of art .