{"product_id":"2026200010073-secondhand-a-selection-from-scrutiny-volume-2","title":"A Selection From Scrutiny: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the most formidable critical journals of the twentieth century, Scrutiny stands as a monument to rigorous literary debate — and this second volume of F.R. Leavis's curated selection presents the very best of its intellectual legacy. Published between 1932 and 1953, Scrutiny attracted the sharpest critical minds in Britain, and Leavis's careful curation presents essays that cut to the heart of literature's moral and cultural significance, arguing with unflinching conviction for a discriminating, humane approach to reading.\n\nThis collection illuminates the enduring concerns of the Leavisite critical tradition: the relationship between literature and lived experience, the standards by which great writing is measured, and the cultural responsibilities of the educated reader. Leavis, one of Cambridge's most influential and controversial figures, instructs through his selection as much as through his prose — each chosen essay a rebuke to superficiality and a testament to the seriousness literature demands. For scholars of English literary criticism, this volume remains an indispensable — and at times combative — window into a critical movement that reshaped how English was taught and read across the English-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130625663195,"sku":"2026200010073-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/077d9f3a-2448-4f00-b40d-97e116d82b2e.png?v=1786587832","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010073-secondhand-a-selection-from-scrutiny-volume-2","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}