Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English

by David Ellis

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In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis, David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were largely...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1846318890

ISBN13:9781846318894

Release Date:March 2013

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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