The great tradition : George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad
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The great tradition : George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad
（Penguin literary criticism）
Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, 1993, c1948
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Originally published, London: Chatto and Windus, 1948
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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".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The great tradition. Part 2 George Eliot: the early phase
- "Romola" to "Middlemarch"
- "Daniel Deronda" and "The Portrait of a Lady". Part 3 Henry James: to "The Portrait of a Lady"
- the later James. Part 4 Joseph Conrad: minor works and "Nostromo"
- "Victory", "The Secret Agent", "Under Western Eyes" and "Chance". Part 5 "Hard Times": an analytic note.
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