LEAVIS, QUEENIE DOROTHY

LEAVIS, QUEENIE DOROTHY: LEAVIS, QUEENIE DOROTHY (1906–1981), British literary scholar. Queenie Leavis, the daughter of a Jewish draper, Morris Roth, of Edmonton, London, was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a first degree and won four prizes. In 1929 she married the famous literary scholar F.R. Leavis (1895–1978). Her doctoral dissertation was published as Fiction and the Reading Public (1932). From 1932 until 1953 her husband was the editor of the famous literary quarterly Scrutiny, in which she played an influential role. She taught English at Cambridge in the 1960s and produced a steady flow of highly influential works centering around the nature of English literary identity, such as Dickens the Novelist (1970), co-authored with her husband, and essays published posthumously in three collected volumes. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online; I. MacKillop, F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism (1995). (William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)

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Leavis — [ liːvɪs], F. (Frank) R. (Raymond), englischer Literaturkritiker, * Cambridge 14. 7. 1895, ✝ ebenda 17. 4. 1978; war 1936 62 Fellow des Downing College in Cambridge. Leavis betonte die moralische Funktion der Literatur und war ein… … Universal-Lexikon
Leavis, F.R. — ▪ British critic in full Frank Raymond Leavis born July 14, 1895, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. died April 14, 1978, Cambridge English literary critic who championed seriousness and moral depth in literature and criticized what he… … Universalium
Q. D. Leavis — Queenie Dorothy ( Queenie ) Leavis (1900 1982), née Roth, was an English literary critic and essayist.She wrote about the historical sociology of reading and the development of the English, the European, and the American novel. She paid… … Wikipedia
Scrutiny — [ skruːtɪnɪ; englisch »Musterung«, »Prüfung«], einflussreiche englische Literatur und Kulturzeitschrift, gegründet 1932 von Lionel Charles Knights (* 1906). Sie stand der Cambridger Kritikerschule um F. R. Leavis nahe, der zusammen mit seiner… … Universal-Lexikon
1978 — This article is about the year 1978. Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s … Wikipedia

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