The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis

This book sorts out and illuminates the greatness of the English novel tradition, starting with the "few true greats" in the history of the English novel, in order to "awaken a proper sense of difference", by which is meant "those important novelists who are comparable to the great poets-who have transformed not only the potential of art for their peers and readers, but also the sense of humanity that they have fostered. The so-called great novelists, "are those important novelists who can be compared with the great poets - those who not only transformed the potential of art for their peers and readers, but were also important in terms of the sense of humanity they fostered - the sense of the potential of life. " That is to say, they were not only creative geniuses in form, technique and skill, but also had a serious interest in moral relationships and human consciousness, and the great novelists who have the honor of joining Leavis's list are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and DH Lawrence; while such notable figures as Meredith and Hardy have been regarded as "not worthy of the name, but in fact not worthy of it"; and such famous figures as Meredith and Hardy have been regarded as "not worthy of the name, but in fact not worthy of it"; while those who are not worthy of it are not. and Dickens, on the one hand, the author recognizes his greatness, but on the other hand, he says: "The mature mind does not find in Dickens anything that requires one to maintain an extraordinary seriousness for a long time." Thus only the last chapter analyzes his Hard Times.

Table of Contents:

Chapter I. The Great Tradition

Chapter II. George Eliot

Chapter III. Henry James

Chapter IV. Joseph Conrad

Chapter V. Hard Times

Appendices

Attachments by the Translator