G. P. Singh, Editor. Queenie Dorothy Leavis was a formidable critic of the novel. She wrote on a wide variety of novels but her primary focus was the 19th century English novel. This volume includes her famous essay 'A critical theory of Jane Austen's writing,' a lecture 'Jane Austen: novelist of a changing society,' and introductions to Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Villete, Silas Marner. There is also a lecture on Wuthering Heights and 'The Englishness of the English Novel.' Cambridge University Press. 1983. Paper. USED. $35.00