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Singh, G.

About the author: G. Singh, Emeritus Professor of Italian at Queen’s University, Belfast, is the author of over 50 books in English and Italian, including F. R. Leavis: A Literary Biography, and has edited 2 volumes of F. R. Leavis and 3 volumes of Q. D. Leavis’s posthumous writings.

Critical Study of Literary Critic Q. D. Leavis’s Published and Unpublished Writings
2002 0-7734-7077-8
Analyzes the various aspects of Q.D. Leavis' dealings with novelists such as Jane Austen, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, and George Eliot. It comments on plot, characterization, style, and the Zeitgeist. The final chapters examine the nature of her collaboration with her husband F.R. Leavis. The chapters dealing with Hans Christian Andersen, and folk and fairy tales cover hitherto unexplored ground.