George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad
by
F. R. Leavis
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.'
So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness...