Memoirs of a Leavisite The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English
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David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent. His previous books include 'Death and the author: how D. H. Lawrence died, and was remembered' (OUP, 2008) and 'Literary Lives: Biography and the search for understanding' (EUP, 2003). His website can be found at: http://dellis-author.co.ukA beautifully written, engaging and informative work ... It gives vivid and witty accounts of both F.R. and Q.D. Leavis’s fraught and often fractious relationships with colleagues and contemporaries, but the tone is never malicious or one-sided. Above all, it is a book about the role that literature might play in a life.<br />
<b>Laura Marcus</b>
I also enjoyed David Ellis's <em>Memoirs of a Leavisite</em> (Liverpool University Press), an autobiography that, while providing first-hand evidence of Leavis's influence on university English departments the world over, distinguishes itself from many a work by Leavisite hands by its note of self-deprecation.<br />
<b>D. J. Taylor, <i>Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year 2013'</i></b>
Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year 2013'
I loved two works of non-fiction that could have been written just for me - Alwyn W Turner's <em>A Classless Society</em> and David Ellis's <em>Memoirs of a Leavisite</em>.<br />
<b>Leo Robson, <i>The New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2013'</i></b>
The New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2013'
A personal memoir cannot pretend to be an easy introduction to the study of literature; yet the modest frankness with which he shows his colours, with no attempt to disguise personal preferences and standards (rather too cheerful to be strictly “Leavisian”), makes this “confession” a richly rewarding joy to read.<br /><b><i>Archive fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen</i></b><br />