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25. Ibid., p. 184.
26. F.R.Leavis, Nor shall my sword: discourses on pluralism, compassion and social
hope (London, Chatto & Windus, 1972), p. 15.
27. Leavis, The common pursuit, p. 190.
28. F.R.Leavis, Education and the university: a sketch for an “English school” (London,
Chatto & Windus, 1948), p. 145.
29. F.R.Leavis, Revaluation (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972), p. 58.
30. The phrase is originally Nietzsche’s, but has been borrowed by Fredric Jameson
to describe structuralist and Formalist theories of literature, cf. F.Jameson, The
prison-house of language (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1972).
31. F.R.Leavis, New bearings in English poetry (London, Chatto & Windus, 1938),
pp. 213–14.
32. Leavis, The common pursuit, p. 184.
33. Thus Leavis: “to aim at solving the problems of civilization in terms of the ‘class
war’ is to aim…at completing the work of capitalism and its products”—F.R.Leavis,
For continuity (Cambridge, Minority Press, 1933), p. 172.
34. P.Anderson, Components of the national culture, in Student power eds. R.Blackburn
& A.Cockburn (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970), p. 276. Interestingly, this
passage is omitted from the revised version of the essay included in Anderson’s
English questions, presumably because he now considers it “some of the bombast
and excess of the period”—P.Anderson English questions (London, Verso, 1992),
Acknowledgements page.
35. Anderson, English questions, p. 102.
36. F.Mulhern, The moment of “Scrutiny” (London, Verso, 1981), p. 322.
37. Eagleton, The function of criticism, p. 75.
38. D.J.Palmer, The rise of English studies (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1965),
p. 99.
39. Leavis, Nor shall my sword, p. 94.
40. Ibid., ch.1.
41. F.R.Leavis, Two cultures? (London, Chatto & Windus, 1962), p. 30.
42. Mulhern, The moment of “Scrutiny”, p. 326.
43. Anderson, English questions, p. 99.
44. Leavis, Revaluation, pp. 58, 53.
45. M.Green, British decency, Kenyon Review, 21, 4, 1959, pp. 506–7.
46. R.Hoggart & R.Williams, Working class attitudes, New Left Review, 1, 1960.
47. E.P.Thompson, William Morris: romantic to revolutionary (London, Lawrence
& Wishart, 1955).
48. E.P.Thompson, The making of the English working class (London, Victor Gollancz,
1963), p. 832.
49. Ibid.
50. R.Hoggart, The uses of literacy (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1958), p. 343.
51. Williams, Culture and society, p. 311.
52. Ibid., p. 313.
53. Ibid., p. 311.
54. R.Williams, The long revolution (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965), p. 68.
55. Williams, Culture and society, p. 322.
56. Ibid., p. 318.
57. Ibid., p. 311.
58. Williams, The long revolution, p. 64.
59. Ibid., pp. 64–5.
60. R.Williams, The English novel: from Dickens to Lawrence (St Albans, Paladin,
1974).

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