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This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F.
R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and
cultural criticism, and connecting it to the broader discourse of
English Studies as a university subject that developed in the first
half of the twentieth century. Comparing and contrasting all the
many writings of Leavis on Eliot, and the two on Lawrence, the
study examines how Eliot is formative for the theory and practice
of Leavis's literary criticism in both positive and negative ways,
and investigates Lawrence's significance in relation to Leavis's
changing attitude to Eliot. It also examines how profound
differences in social, cultural, religious and national thinking
strengthened Leavis's alliance with Lawrence to the detriment of
his relationship with Eliot. These differences between the two
writers are presented as dichotomies between nationalism and
Europeanism/internationalism, ruralism/organicism and
industrialism/metropolitanism, and relate to the two men's views on
literary education, the subject of 'English' and the position of
the Classics in the curriculum. It explores how Leavis's
increasingly conflicted feelings about a figure to whom he owned an
enormous critical debt and inspiration, but whose various beliefs
and literary affiliations caused him much misgiving, result in a
deep sense of division in Leavis himself which he sought to
transfer onto Eliot as what he called a pathological 'case'.
This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F.
R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and
cultural criticism, and connecting it to the broader discourse of
English Studies as a university subject that developed in the first
half of the twentieth century. Comparing and contrasting all the
many writings of Leavis on Eliot, and the two on Lawrence, the
study examines how Eliot is formative for the theory and practice
of Leavis's literary criticism in both positive and negative ways,
and investigates Lawrence's significance in relation to Leavis's
changing attitude to Eliot. It also examines how profound
differences in social, cultural, religious and national thinking
strengthened Leavis's alliance with Lawrence to the detriment of
his relationship with Eliot. These differences between the two
writers are presented as dichotomies between nationalism and
Europeanism/internationalism, ruralism/organicism and
industrialism/metropolitanism, and relate to the two men's views on
literary education, the subject of 'English' and the position of
the Classics in the curriculum. It explores how Leavis's
increasingly conflicted feelings about a figure to whom he owned an
enormous critical debt and inspiration, but whose various beliefs
and literary affiliations caused him much misgiving, result in a
deep sense of division in Leavis himself which he sought to
transfer onto Eliot as what he called a pathological 'case'.
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