QD Leavis

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Queenie Dorothy Leavis (née Roth ; * December 7, 1906 in Edmonton , Middlesex , † March 17, 1981 in Cambridge ) was an English literary scholar. Together with her husband FR Leavis , she shaped British literary theory and didactics for decades towards the middle of the 20th century .

She was the sister of the mathematician Leonard Roth .

literature

José Ramón Díaz Fernández offers an extensive bibliography of works by and about QD Leavis: QD Leavis: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources . In: Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 7, 1994. pp. 213-239.

Works (selection)

  • Fiction and the Reading Public . Chatto & Windus, London 1932. (Numerous new editions, most recently Random House, London 2000, ISBN 0712665048 )
  • (with FR Leavis) Dickens the Novelist . Chatto & Windus, London 1970. Reprint Faber and Faber, London 2008, ISBN 9780571243600
  • Collected essays . 3 volumes. Cambridge University Press 1983-1989. Reprint 2009, ISBN 0521757916
    • Vol. 1: The Englishness of the English Novel , 1983. ISBN 0521254175
    • Vol. 2: The American Novel and Reflections on the European Novel , 1985. ISBN 0521267021
    • Vol. 3: The Novels of Religious Controversy , 1989. ISBN 052126703X

Secondary literature

  • William Baker, John Kimber, MB Kinch: FR Leavis and QD Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography . Garland Pub., New York 1989. ISBN 0824088948
  • PJM Robertson: The Leavises on Fiction: An Historic Partnership . St. Martin's Press, New York 1981. ISBN 0312477317
  • G. Singh: A Critical Study of Literary Critic QD Leavis's Published and Unpublished Writings . E. Mellen Press, Lewiston NY, 2002. ISBN 0773470778
  • Denys Thompson: The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions . Cambridge University Press 1984. ISBN 0521254949
  • Garry Watson: The Leavises, the "Social", & the Left . Brynmill Pub., Swansea 1977. ISBN 095027237X