First published in 1983.

This book illustrates the value of the cross-fertilisation of literary criticism with philosophy, something Leavis advocated in his later writings. Lonergan’s

This book explores how a small circle of Cambridge literary critics turned into a movement that revolutionized the way English was taught and brought popular cu

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