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Volume 2 of A Selection from Scrutiny opens with Mrs Leavis's much quoted studies, which together form 'A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings'. There follows a section of reviews of novelists (Dorothy Richardson, Gissing, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Henry James), and Mrs Leavis's study of Edith Wharton.

Table of Contents
1. Jane Austen; 2. Novelists Reviewed; 3. Henry James's Heiress; 4. Wordsworth; 5. On Metaphysical Poetry; 6. 'As you like it'; 7. Revaluation: John Webster; 8. The English Tradition; 9. The History of Critical Journalism; 10. The Responsible Critic; 11. Valedictory.

A Selection from Scrutiny

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521095099, 978-0521095099
      ISBN10: 0521095093

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Volume 2 of A Selection from Scrutiny opens with Mrs Leavis's much quoted studies, which together form 'A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings'. There follows a section of reviews of novelists (Dorothy Richardson, Gissing, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Henry James), and Mrs Leavis's study of Edith Wharton.

      Table of Contents
      1. Jane Austen; 2. Novelists Reviewed; 3. Henry James's Heiress; 4. Wordsworth; 5. On Metaphysical Poetry; 6. 'As you like it'; 7. Revaluation: John Webster; 8. The English Tradition; 9. The History of Critical Journalism; 10. The Responsible Critic; 11. Valedictory.

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