D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one of the most passionate and rigorous defences in the history of English literary criticism, arguing with characteristic conviction that Lawrence was not merely a significant writer but the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist presents a systematic and penetrating study of Lawrence's major works — from The Rainbow and Women in Love to St. Mawr and the short stories — dissecting the moral seriousness, vitality, and radical intelligence that Leavis believed placed him above his contemporaries, including Joyce and Eliot. Written in Leavis's characteristically authoritative and combative prose, the work stands as a landmark of practical criticism, illustrating how close textual analysis can reveal the full depth of a novelist's achievement. Leavis argues that Lawrence's fiction embodies a rare, life-affirming wisdom rooted in the organic and the human, positioning him as a counter-force to what Leavis saw as the sterile intellectualism of modernism. For students of English literature, critics, and devoted readers of Lawrence alike, this study remains an indispensable — and still provocative — work that compels the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about one of literature's most electrifying voices.
Author: F. R. Leavis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one of the most passionate and rigorous defences in the history of English literary criticism, arguing with characteristic conviction that Lawrence was not merely a significant writer but the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist presents a systematic and penetrating study of Lawrence's major works — from The Rainbow and Women in Love to St. Mawr and the short stories — dissecting the moral seriousness, vitality, and radical intelligence that Leavis believed placed him above his contemporaries, including Joyce and Eliot. Written in Leavis's characteristically authoritative and combative prose, the work stands as a landmark of practical criticism, illustrating how close textual analysis can reveal the full depth of a novelist's achievement. Leavis argues that Lawrence's fiction embodies a rare, life-affirming wisdom rooted in the organic and the human, positioning him as a counter-force to what Leavis saw as the sterile intellectualism of modernism. For students of English literature, critics, and devoted readers of Lawrence alike, this study remains an indispensable — and still provocative — work that compels the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about one of literature's most electrifying voices.