Dr Leavis's Selection from Scrutiny gives in two volumes important material which is not easily available elsewhere.

Volume 2 of A Selection from Scrutiny opens with Mrs Leavis's much quoted studies, which together form 'A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings'.

Mill's major essays on Bentham and Coleridge are introduced here by F.R. Leavis.

These critical essays cover the entire span of James' career, from the essay on Whitman (1965) to The New Novel (1914).

First published by Cambridge in 1979, this text is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university.

Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a liberal education. Deeply disturbed by this state of affairs, Leavis puts forward a proposal for a University English School which would offer a programme of liberal studies designed to bring various disciplines into relation without promoting superficiality. This in turn leads him to consider the wider issue of the idea of a university in modern...