Index

Act of Settlement  3
Addison, Joseph  52
Adelphi  131
Adorno, Theodor W.  176
Adult Education  142, 143
Aestheticism  5
affluent worker  145
Age of Criticism  11, 12
Age of Scholarship  11, 12
Age of Theory  11, 12
Agricultural Revolution  66, 67
Aldington, Richard  33
Altick, Richard  198
ambiguity, Empson and  10310, 160
Andrewes, Lancelot  41, 42
Anglo-Catholicism  40, 412, 44
‘antiquarian’ literary history  14, 15
Aristotle  83
Arnold, Matthew  6, 67, 178
culture  151, 161, 162, 163
Culture and Anarchy  165
and Eliot  124
and Empson  124
and Hoggart  149, 1523
and Leavis (F. R.)  70, 71, 73, 75, 124
poetry and religion  86
poetry’s pre-eminence  21
and Richards  124
and Willey  87, 88
and Williams  162, 163, 165, 169, 170, 1756
Smith on  58
Ashley, Maurice, England in the Seventeenth Century  231 n. 12
Ashley, W. J.  92
Athenaeum, The  29, 32, 51
Auden, W. H.  142
Augustine, St  41, 42
Austen, Jane  128, 135, 1923
Babbitt, Irving  217 n. 13
‘background’ in literary studies  77101
Bacon, Francis  978
Bagehot, Walter  178
Baldick, Chris  53
Bantock, G. H.  1956
Bateson, F. W.  91, 135, 143
Baudelaire, Charles  33
Baxter, Paul  63
Beales, H. L.  145
Beer, John  86
Behn, Aphra  128
Beljame, Alexandre
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  196
Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle  57
Collins’s The Profession of Letters  55
Leavis (F. R.)’s Ph.D. thesis  53, 54, 55
Leavis (F. R.)’s ‘Sociology and Literature’  55
translation into English  56, 196
Bell, Clive  165, 169
Benda, Julien  79, 84
Bentham, Jeremy
and Arnold  124
demonization  689
and Emerson  124
Halévy on  74
and Leavis (F. R.)  69, 70, 72, 73
Richards as modern representative  69
Utilitarianism  70
Bentley, Michael  9
Beowulf  15
Bible
Arnold  86
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  149
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  1278
Trevelyan  74
Willey  86
Bildung  175
Blake, William  87, 162
Boon, Timothy  166
Bowen, Elizabeth  91
Bradley, A. C.  18, 21
Bramhall, John  423
Briggs, Asa  145, 187
British Academy  445, 46
Brontë, Charlotte  128
Brontë sisters  134
Brooke, Rupert  21
Browne, Sir Thomas  78, 7980, 856
Browning, Robert  135
Eliot on  38, 45
Empson on  104
Bryant, Arthur  10
Buckle, Henry Thomas  91
History of Civilization  121, 122
Buckley, Jerome  197
Bunyan, John  142
Bantock on  195
Leavis (F. R.) on  59, 62, 184
Leavis (Q. D.) on  1278
The Pilgrim’s Progress  61, 1278
Burckhardt, Jacob  186
Burgess, Guy  91
Burke, Edmund  178
Williams’s Culture and Society  161, 162
Burtt, E. A.
Leavis (F. R.) on  65, 67
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science  65, 67
Willey on  84
Butterfield, Herbert
Christianity and History  92
Knights on  92
New Cambridge Modern History  1901
The Whig Interpretation of History  56, 92
Empson on  124
Leavis (F. R.) on  74
Cambridge History of English Literature  190
Cambridge Modern History  190
Cambridge University  23
Age of Scholarship  11
Clark  191
Empson  104, 110, 121
Knights  91
Leavis (F. R.)  54, 63, 68, 91
Leavis (Q. D.)  1323
Thompson  201
Willey  77, 78, 84, 89, 91
Williams  164, 169, 204
Cannadine, David  54, 74
capitalism
as background in literary studies  77, 91, 100
cultural history  200
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  154
Leavis (F. R.)  65, 66, 67
Weber  96
Williams’s The Long Revolution  203 see also economics
Carew, Thomas  64, 134
Carlyle, Thomas  3
and Eliot  31
Victorian society  68
and Williams  162, 170, 1789
Carr, E. H.  205
Carroll, Lewis  112
Caudwell, Christopher  170
Cecil, Lord David  143
Central Office of Information  166
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham  139, 153
Chapman, George  32, 33, 38, 59
Chase, Stuart  131, 172
Chatto and Windus  88
Empson  117
Leavis (F. R.)  138
Williams  201, 204
Chaucer, Geoffrey  15, 21
The Canterbury Tales  151, 152
Cherbury, Lord Herbert of  38, 45
Christendom  43
Christianity, Empson on  112, 118, 119, 1201, 122
Churchill, Winston  10
Civil War  45
Clark, G. N.  26, 1901
class
Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral  11113, 114
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  1456, 14750, 1513, 154, 155
Industrial Revolution  201
and Leavis (F. R.)  136
Williams on  176, 1778, 203
Cobbett, William  161, 162, 176, 181
Cole, G. D. H.  74, 145
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Idea of Church and State  162
and Leavis (F. R.)  70, 72, 73
Richards on  130
and Willey  88
and Williams  162, 170, 175
Collins, A. S.  55
Communist Party Historians Group  46
comparative literature  5
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature  191, 1923
Connolly, Cyril  24
Conrad, Joseph  128
Cooper, J. P.  25, 44, 199
Corbière, Tristan  33
Corelli, Marie  129
Corner, John  140
Courthope, William John, A History of English Poetry  53, 55
Cowling, Maurice  204, 206
Cox, Margaret  99
Cox, R. G.  76, 99, 189
Cranmer, Thomas  41
Criterion
Eliot’s defence against Pound’s criticism  278
Eliot’s review of Gooch  31
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  130
‘critical’ literary history  14, 15
Critical Quarterly  141
critical revolution  186
cultural history  183206
culture
Eliot  178, 205
Hoggart  165
Leavis (F. R.)  165
Oxford English Dictionary  156, 157, 1589, 160, 161, 162, 164, 167
Thompson  205, 206
Williams  15670, 17282, 205
culture-and-society tradition  153
Cunningham, William  92
Daily Mail  129
Daily Mirror  137
Dante Alighieri
Eliot on  32, 33
Leavis (F. R.) on  50
Davies, Godfrey, The Early Stuarts 1603–1660  190
Dawson, Christopher  84, 170
Defoe, Daniel
Hoggart on  151, 152
Leavis (F. R.) on  52
Leavis (Q. D.) on  127
Moll Flanders  151, 152
Descartes, René  80
de Sélincourt, Ernest  6, 160
Dicey, Albert Venn  68
Dickens, Charles
Hard Times  68, 72
and Leavis (F. R.)  68, 72, 135
and Leavis (Q. D.)  128, 129, 135
Dobrée, Bonamy  56
Donne, John  64
Eliot on  32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 42, 45, 78, 80
Dostoevsky, Fyodor  32
Douglas, Major C. H.  44
Dryden, John  15, 52
Durkheim, Emile  100
Economic History Review  198
economics  901, 99100
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  1467
Knights on  92, 939
Robertson’s Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism  96 see also capitalism
Edgeworth, Maria  128
Edinburgh Review  130, 131
Education Act (1870)  129
Edward VI  42
Eliot, George  142
and Leavis (F. R.)  48, 701, 75, 128, 135, 143
and Leavis (Q. D.)  129, 130, 135
Eliot, T. S.  23, 24, 2547, 141, 207, 210
application for Fellowship at All Souls  257, 37
and Arnold  124
Bantock on  196
Clark Lectures  337
common culture  151
cosmopolitanism  210
culture  178, 205
and Davies’s The Early Stuarts  190
defence of the Criterion  278
‘dissociation of sensibility’  25, 389, 447, 49, 57, 79, 80, 878, 97, 118, 125, 196, 216 n. 55, 219 n. 43
and Empson  104, 108, 118, 123, 125
‘The English Tradition’  434
and Hoggart  138, 153
Homage to John Dryden  30, 80
Leavis (F. R.)’s reading of  51, 54
influence
on Leavis (F. R.)  4950, 512, 54, 5760, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 134
on Leavis (Q. D.)  133
on Willey  78, 7980, 81, 85, 86, 89
Leavis (F. R.) on  51, 54, 60
lectures  323, 445, 46
literary history  15, 18, 1920, 21, 2830, 3242, 467
on Milton  45, 135
New Criticism  212 n. 21
Norton Lectures  33, 378
Notes towards the Definition of Culture  156, 165
Ph.D. dissertation  33
poetry  28
religion  40, 413, 44, 45
reputation  40
The Sacred Wood  24, 30, 37
Leavis (F. R.)’s reading of  51
Smith’s ‘The Dissociation of Sensibility’  99
social criticism  30, 41, 42, 434, 47
spiritual development  32
The Waste Land  51, 68
and Wedgwood’s Seventeenth-Century English Literature  189
Whig history  28
and Williams  156, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172
and Wordsworth  86
Elizabeth I  41, 42
Elton, Oliver  21, 136
Survey of English Literature 1830–1880  74
embourgeoisement thesis  145
Empson, William  23, 10225, 141
cultural history  185
Far East affiliations  210
Leavis (F. R.) on  60
Milton’s God  1202
poetry  22
Seven Types of Ambiguity  10310, 124, 160
Some Versions of Pastoral  1023, 11015, 144
The Structure of Complex Words  11520
Williams’s review of  1712
English Historical Review  8, 206
‘English Men of Letters’ series  19
Leavis (F. R.)’s Ph.D. thesis  53
Erastianism  44
Essays in Criticism  141, 1423, 151, 206
Hoggart’s contributions  142
Williams’s contributions  159, 172, 227 n. 39
Faber, Geoffrey  27, 213 n. 2
Faber and Gwyer  27
Fabianism  43, 70
Ferguson, Adam  175
Fielding, Henry  134
First World War  6, 20, 68
Firth, C. H.  7, 74
Fisher, H. A. L.  10, 26, 212 n. 19
Ford, Boris
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  191, 1935
on Sampson’s Concise Cambridge History of English Literature  1923
Ford, Ford Madox  20
formalism  12
Forster, E. M.
Bantock on  195
and Leavis (Q. D.)  131, 226 n. 18
Frank, Joseph  12
Fraser, John  199
Froude, J. A.  23
and Eliot  31
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada  34
The Reign of Elizabeth  31
Gay, John, The Beggar’s Opera  112
George, Henry  43
Gervais, David  501
Ghosh, Peter  96
Glanvill, Joseph  85
‘global intellectual history’  209
Glorious Revolution  3
Gooch, G. P.  31
Gosse, Edmund  18, 153
Gray, Thomas  134
Great Reform Act (1832)  3
Greene, Graham  142
Grierson, H. J. C.
Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century, Eliot’s review of  3840, 79
Potts on  78
on Willey’s The Seventeenth-Century Background  789
Habermas, Jürgen, Habilitationsschrift  53
Halévy, Elie  68
and Bentham  69, 74
Growth of Philosophic Radicalism  70
History of the English People  171
Leavis (F. R.) on  70, 71
and Williams  171
Hall, Stuart  153
Hammond, J. L. and Barbara  23, 199
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  145, 146
Leavis (F. R.) on  59, 67
and Williams  170
Harding, D. W.  69, 70
Hardy, Thomas  129, 135
Harris, Jose  188
Harrison, Frederic  178
Hayward, John  133, 135
Henry VIII  41, 42
Herrick, Robert  134
Hertford College, Oxford  1878
Hewitt, Martin  233 n. 47
Highway  141, 142
Hill, Christopher  46, 190, 200
Hilliard, Christopher
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  1967
Scrutiny movement  49, 21819 n. 36
Hobbes, Thomas  43, 64
Hobson, J. A., John Ruskin, Social Reformer  74
Hoggart, Richard  23, 13840, 1424, 14555
Auden  142
cultural history  200
culture  165
Hough on  232 n. 37
Thompson on  206
The Uses of Literacy  114, 138, 13940, 143, 14555
Holbrook, David  132, 226 n. 17, 232 n. 37
Holloway, John  197
homo economicus  75
Hooker, Richard  41, 42
Hopkins, David  66
Hough, Graham  232 n. 37
on Hoggart  227 n. 48
on Willey’s Nineteenth Century Studies  89
Houghton, Walter  197, 198
Huizinga, Johan  186
Hulme, T. E.
and Eliot  30, 32
literary history  20
Willey on  79, 84
humanism
and Eliot  323
and Mill  175
and Williams  1734, 175
Huxley, Aldous
Empson on  1212
and Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  152
Imagism  36, 39
Industrial Revolution  106, 15682
cultural history  201
Hammonds’s account  1467
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  1467
Knights  97, 98
Leavis (F. R.)  62, 65, 66, 67
Macaulay  3
urbanization  145
Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World  82
Willey  87, 221 n. 21
Williams  157, 158, 159, 161, 164, 1667, 169, 170, 171, 1727, 180, 1812, 203
‘internalist’ histories  208
James, Henry
The Ambassadors  150
Leavis (F. R.)’s The Great Tradition  128, 129
Johnson, Richard  182
Johnson, Samuel
Empson on  117
Leavis (F. R.) on  58
‘the Metaphysicals’  33
Jonson, Ben  192
The Devil is an Ass  95
Knights on  945, 96, 101, 193
Joyce, James  131
Keats, John  104, 130
Ker, W. P.  21
Kermode, Frank  467, 210
Kidd, Benjamin  178
Kiernan, Victor G.  1812, 200
Kingsley, Charles  128
Kipling, Rudyard  21
Knights, L. C.  23, 919, 1001
‘Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Dissociation of Sensibility’  979
cultural history  1845
and Davies’s The Early Stuarts  190
Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson  91, 928, 1001
and Leavis (F. R.)  64, 67
Ford on  193
Marxism  194, 200
‘The University Teaching of English and History: A Plea for Correlation’  1845
Yeats  223 n. 48
Laforgue, Jules  33
Land Tenure Reform Association  43
Lane, Allen  191
Larkin, Philip  33
Laski, Harold  89, 129
Latimer, Hugh  42
Laud, William  41, 42
Lawrence, D. H.  67, 142
Bantock on  195
Cowling on  204
and Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  154, 155
Lady Chatterley’s Lover  138
and Leavis (F. R.)  49, 57, 62, 138
and Leavis (Q. D.)  131
Sons and Lovers  154
Willey on  856
and Williams  165, 170
Leavis, F. R.  23, 4876, 1338, 142
and Arnold  70, 71, 73, 75, 124
Coleridge on Imagination  69
The Common Pursuit  62
cultural history  184
culture  165
Culture and Environment (with Thompson)  49, 602, 184
and Williams  165, 169
and Davies’s The Early Stuarts  190
D. H. Lawrence, Novelist  62
‘dissociation of sensibility’  4950, 63, 184, 219 n. 43
economics  90, 91
Education and the University  50, 52, 62, 63, 656, 143
Eliot’s influence on  4950, 512, 54, 5760, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 134
and Empson  107, 118
and Ford  193
The Great Tradition  62, 72, 128, 143
and Hoggart  138, 139, 140, 143, 149, 151, 153
Hough on  232 n. 37
How to Teach Reading  58
Industrial Revolution  198
in Knights’s Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson  93
Lawrence pamphlet  57
Marxism  194, 200
Mass Civilization and Minority Culture  57, 1267
Mill on Bentham and Coleridge  62, 63, 69
New Bearings in English Poetry  4950, 57, 69
‘old Cambridge’, preference for  55
‘organic community’  49
Ph.D. thesis  524, 55, 56, 58, 76
Powys’s Mr Weston’s Good Wine  131
reading public  523, 56, 58, 59, 61, 74, 75, 76, 126, 1338
Revaluation  4950, 578, 62, 69, 133, 1345, 136
and Richards  60, 69, 70, 72, 129
‘sinewy’ term  151
‘Sociology and Literature’  557
Stephen, English Utilitarian  220 n. 71
‘Two Cultures’ controversy  198, 199, 232 n. 38
on Wedgwood  189
‘What’s Wrong with Criticism?’  58
and Williams  164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 203
Leavis, Q. D.  23, 12633
Fiction and the Reading Public  126, 12733, 135, 13940, 1545
and Ford  193
and Hoggart  138, 13940, 1545
‘old Cambridge’, preference for  55
Ph.D. thesis  127, 1323, 225 n. 2, 226 n. 18
and Richards  69, 12930, 132
Stephen’s Ford Lectures  56
Lecky, W. E. H.  83, 85, 221 n. 11
Lentricchia, Frank  12
L’Estrange, Roger  52
Library of Sociology  55
Lienhardt, Godfrey  63
Lienhardt, Peter  63
Lippincott, Benjamin, Victorian Critics of Democracy  74
Lipsom, Ephraim  92
literary sociology  52
‘Literature in Relation to History’ course  164, 1878
Locke, John  221 n. 21
Lowe, Robert  176
Lukacs, György  194
Lynd, Robert and Helen, Middletown
and Ford  193
and Leavis (F. R.)  61, 62, 66, 67, 1267
and Leavis (Q. D.)  225 n. 4
and Williams  171
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
and Eliot  31
and Firth  74
The History of England  3, 74
and Knights  92
and Leavis (F. R.)  65, 72
and Palgrave  4
and Williams  176
MacCarthy, Desmond  24
MacKillop, Ian
Leavis (F. R.)’s Ph.D. thesis  217 n. 10, 218 n. 20
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  225 n. 4
Magna Carta  3
Malthus, Thomas Robert  178
Malthusianism  72, 73
Mandler, Peter  9
Mannheim, Karl  55
Maritain, Jacques  84
Marshall, Alfred  3
Marx, Karl  170
Marxism  91, 194, 200, 205, 206
and Empson  113
Knights’s Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson  92
Thompson  199
Maxwell, J. C.  90
Meredith, George  6, 104
Methodism  171
Mill, James
Essay on Government  72
Leavis (F. R.) on  72
Macaulay on  72
Utilitarianism  72
Mill, John Stuart  43, 178
Autobiography  71
on Bentham  69
‘Civilization’  175
Leavis (F. R.) on  701, 72, 73, 75, 220 n. 71
Utilitarianism  70, 72
Williams on  175
Milton, John
de Sélincourt on  6
Eliot on  45, 135
Empson on  122
Kermode on  47
Leavis (F. R.) on  61
Leavis (Q. D.) on  127
Paradise Lost  122
Mizener, Arthur  11314
modernity  2, 12, 22, 23
economics  100
Knights on  934, 95, 98
Leavis (F. R.)  61
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  195
Willey on  86
‘monumental’ literary history  14, 15
Morley, John  88
Morris, William  178
Victorian society  68, 75
and Williams  170, 176
Muir, Edwin  389
Mumford, Lewis  170
Murry, John Middleton  24, 31
Myers, L. H.  195
Namier, Sir Lewis  56, 205
New Cambridge Modern History  1901
New Criticism  2, 12, 23, 141
New Left Review  164, 168, 179, 2045
New Liberalism  43, 68
Newman, Francis  88
Newman, John Henry, Idea of a University  163
New Poor Law (1834)  723
New Reasoner  1812
News of the World  137
Newton, Sir Isaac  71
Nietzsche, Friedrich  176
decadence  19
and Empson  122
literary history  1415
Northcliffe, Lord  129
Notes and Queries  8, 137
Oakeshott, Michael  69, 70
Ogden, C. K.  69, 70
Oman, Sir Charles  26
Orrom, Michael  166
Orwell, George  142
and Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  148
The Road to Wigan Pier  114
Owen, Robert  162, 174
Owens College, Manchester  8
Oxford Delegacy  164, 187
Oxford English Dictionary
culture, and Williams  156, 157, 1589, 160, 161, 162, 164, 167
Empson on the  116
Oxford History of England  190, 191
Oxford History of English Literature  190
Oxford Magazine  188
Oxford University  7
Eliot’s All Souls Fellowship application  257, 37
multi-volume history of  188
Oxford University Press  197
Palgrave, Francis Turner, Golden Treasury  4, 19
poetry’s pre-eminence  21, 22
Parker, Christopher  9, 10
Parkes, H. B.  188, 231 n. 9
Parsons, Ian  117
Parsons, Talcott  96
pastoral  144
Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral  1023, 11015, 144
Pelican Guide to English Literature, The (ed. Ford)  67, 1912, 1937
Penguin  23, 191
Leavis (F. R.)  138
Leavis (Q. D.)  140
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  67, 1912, 1937
Penguin History of England  190
Peregrine imprint  90, 91
Williams’s Culture and Society  181
Williams’s Long Revolution  204
Pevsner, Dieter  181
Pickthorn, Kenneth  31, 32
Plumb, J. H.  1989
Pocock, David  63, 219 n. 40
Politics and Letters  165
Pollard, Albert  8, 67
Pope, Alexander  64
Beljame’s Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle  54
Empson on  118
Essay on Criticism  118
reclassification  15
Smith on  58
Popper, Karl  205
popular history  910
Postgate, Raymond  187
Potts, L. J.  97
on Willey’s The Seventeenth Century Background  78, 80
Pound, Ezra  201, 278
Power, Eileen  171
Powicke, F. M.  187
Powys, T. F., Mr Weston’s Good Wine  131
Practical Criticism  2, 11, 12
Priestley, J. B.  131
Pritchett, V. S.  24
‘proletarian literature’  113, 115
Protestantism
Eliot  41, 42
Empson  103, 118, 122
Gooch’s English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century  31
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  147
Weber  96
Puritanism  192
Arnold  124
Empson  103, 112, 118, 119, 120, 122, 124
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  127
Quarterly Review  130
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur  218 n. 20
Raleigh, Walter  18, 21
rationalism, Empson on  121, 122, 124, 125
reading public  12655
Hoggart  1389, 1424, 14555
Leavis (F. R.)  523, 56, 58, 59, 61, 74, 75, 76, 126, 1338
Leavis (Q. D.)  126, 12733, 135
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  194
Reform Act (1832)  71
Reform Act (1867)  176
Reformation  3
religion
Eliot  40, 413, 44, 45
Empson  112, 118, 119, 1201, 122
Halévy  171
Hoggart  147, 149
Weber on  96
Willey  80, 845, 86, 87, 89
Williams  173
Renaissance  43
Restoration  192
Eliot  38
Empson  112, 118, 11920
Leavis (F. R.)  52, 64, 66
Smith  99
Review of English Studies  8, 88, 141
Leavis (F. R.)  137
Richards, I. A.  141
and Arnold  124
as Bentham’s modern representative  69
and Hoggart  152
and Leavis (F. R.)  60, 69, 70, 72, 129
and Leavis (Q. D.)  69, 12930, 132
Mencius on the Mind  84
poetry  22
Practical Criticism  12
Utilitarianism  70
and Willey  81, 84
Richardson, Samuel  64
Roberts, Sydney  54
Robertson, H. M., Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism  96, 97
Robertson, J. M.
Buckle’s History of Civilization  121, 122
Eliot on  122
hostility towards  278
Modern Humanists  74
Robson, Wallace  65, 1356
Rochester, Earl of (John Wilmot)  64
Rotha, Paul  166
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques  175
Royal Society  192
founding  66
Leavis (F. R.) on  64
Ruel, Malcolm  63
Ruskin, John  3, 4, 75
and Willey  87
Saintsbury, George
Aestheticism  5
Eliot on  32
History of the French Novel  32
Leavis (F. R.) on  54, 136
literary history  18, 21
Short History of English Literature  191
Sale, Roger, on Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral  1023, 110, 111, 115
Empson’s response  123
Salingar, Leo  197
Sampson, George  191, 1923
Sartre, Jean-Paul  176
Scholasticism  43, 80, 835
Schücking, Levin  55
science
as background in literary studies  77, 816, 100
Empson  106
scientific method  7
Scott, Sir Walter  135
and Leavis (F. R.)  134
Scrutiny  49, 55, 58, 67, 68, 76, 141, 142, 151
anthropological approach  1267
Bantock  195
Bentham  69
Butterfield  92
closure  137
Cox, Margaret  99
Cox, R. G.  99, 189
economics  90, 91
Empson  185
first issue  131
Hilliard  49, 21819 n. 36
Hoggart  139, 140, 142
Knights  64, 92, 94, 97
Leavis (F. R.)  50, 55, 57, 219 n. 41
Leavis (Q. D.)  55, 126
Parkes  188
and The Pelican Guide to English Literature  1967
Sampson’s Concise Cambridge History of English Literature  193
Smith  99
Tawney  64
United States  612
and Williams  165, 167, 168
Seeley, John  178
Shakespeare, William  64, 142
ambiguity  105
de Sélincourt on  6
Empson on  103, 118
Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  151, 152, 155
Knights on  95
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  127
Shelley, Percy Bysshe  130, 134
Sidgwick, Henry  55
Smith, Adam  71
Smith, Dai  169, 2301 n. 7
Smith, David Nichol  21
Smith, Harold Wendell  99
Smith, J. A.  58
Smyth, Charles  32
Snow, C. P.
Leavis (F. R.) on  62, 153, 198
‘Two Cultures’ controversy  1989
Social Credit theory  44
social evolutionism  45
Socialism  68
Southey, Robert  162, 174
Spanish Armada  3
Spectator
Leavis (F. R.)  135
Leavis (Q. D.)  128, 135
Spencer, Herbert  71, 223 n. 67
Spengler, Oswald  57, 176
Spingarn, Joel  66
Spinoza, Baruch  80
Sprat, Thomas  66
Steele, Richard  52
Stephen, Leslie  23, 68, 178
and Bentham  69
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century  52, 57, 210
Leavis (F. R.)  556, 128
Leavis (Q. D.)  56, 128
‘English Men of Letters’ volume on George Eliot  220 n. 60
The English Utilitarians  74
Leavis (F. R.)  70, 220 n. 71
Ford Lectures  193, 210, 218 n. 26
Leavis (F. R.)’s Ph.D. thesis  53, 54
Scrutiny movement  55
Storer, Richard  50
Strachey, Lytton, Eminent Victorians  20, 68
Stubbs, William  7
Sturt, George
and Leavis (F. R.)  60, 61, 62, 67, 184, 201, 232 n. 38
Sampson on  192, 193
The Wheelwright’s Shop  199, 201, 232 n. 38
and Williams  171
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
and de Sélincourt  6
and Eliot  34
and Leavis (F. R.)  134
Symbolism  39, 47
Taine, Hippolyte  91
Tatler  52
Leavis (F. R.)  135
Leavis (Q. D.)  128, 135
Tawney, R. H.  199
Acquisitive Society  170
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century  96
and Knights  92, 96, 97
and Leavis (F. R.)  64, 65, 66, 67, 70
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  196
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism  170, 171, 196
and Leavis (F. R.)  64, 65, 66, 67
and Smith  99
and Williams  170, 171
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord  135
de Sélincourt on  6
Eliot on  30, 34, 38, 45
Thackeray, William Makepeace  128, 134
Theology  423
Thompson, Denys
Culture and Environment (with F. R. Leavis)  49, 602, 184
and Williams  165, 169
economics  90
and Williams  165, 169, 171
Thompson, E. P.  199, 200
on Knights’s Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson  91
The Making of the English Working Class  201
on Williams’s The Long Revolution  2046
Times, The  150
Times Literary Supplement
Eliot’s essays and reviews  29, 38, 67
Williams’s The Long Revolution  204
Tocqueville, Alexis de  62
Tout, Thomas Frederick  8, 67
Toynbee, A. J., A Study of History  10
Tractarians  3, 4, 41
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society  8
Tressell, Robert, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists  114
Trevelyan, G. M.  10, 23
British History in the Nineteenth Century  55, 74
England under the Stuarts  534, 567
and Leavis (F. R.)  534, 567, 59, 74, 198
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  196
social history definition  13
Trilling, Lionel  176
‘Two Cultures’ controversy  1989
United States
academic culture  210
academic history  9
Empson’s ‘verbal analysis’  120
Leavis (F. R.) on  601
literary criticism  2, 5
Eliot’s influence on  27
New Criticism  23, 141
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  191, 196
suburbs  601
Victorian Studies  197
universities
Cowling on  204
Eliot’s influence on literary criticism  27
English Literature  78, 10
expansion  138
History  69, 10
Leavis (F. R.)’s readership  138
The Pelican Guide to English Literature  196
poetry’s pre-eminence  21 see also Cambridge University; Oxford University
Universities Quarterly  90
Unwin, George  92
Use of English, The  141
Utilitarianism
Dickens’s Hard Times  68, 72
Knights on  98
and Leavis (F. R.)  68, 69, 703, 75
Leslie Stephen, The English Utilitarians  74
Victoria, Queen  678
Victorian Studies  1978
Victoria University, Manchester  8
Wallas, Graham, Life of Francis Place  74
Ward, Adolphus William  8
Watson, George  21
Webb, Beatrice  70, 71
Weber, Max  96
Wedgwood, C. V.  9
Seventeenth-Century English Literature  1889
Wellek, René  5
Wells, H. G., Outline of History  10
West, Rebecca  24
Westminster Review  70
Whibley, Charles  28
and Eliot  31, 32
Whig history  3, 4, 6, 20
attacks by Namier and Butterfield  56
Beljame’s Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle  54, 56
Courthope’s A History of English Poetry  53
Eliot  28, 302, 47, 122
Empson  103, 1234
Knights  92, 97
Leavis (F. R.)  57, 65, 75
longevity  9
Trevelyan
British History in the Nineteenth Century  74
England under the Stuarts  54, 56
Whitehead, Alfred North
Science and the Modern World  813
Willey on  812, 83, 84
Wilde, Oscar  104
Willey, Basil  23, 7782, 8390, 1001
The Eighteenth-Century Background  868
Ford on  193
More Nineteenth-Century Studies  88
Nineteenth Century Studies  88, 8990
The Seventeenth-Century Background  37, 7982, 836, 88, 90, 221 n. 21
and Leavis (F. R.)  65, 67
reviews  789, 80, 88, 91
Spots of Time  89
Victorian Studies  197
Williams, Raymond  23, 15682, 207, 227 n. 36
adult education Tutorial Classes  157, 169, 1701, 187, 201
‘Books for Teaching “Culture and Environment” ’  170
cultural history  183, 184, 185, 200
Culture and Society 1780–1950  157, 158, 1614, 167, 169, 17282, 183, 201, 203, 205, 206
and Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy  1534
‘Culture and Work’ book proposal  16970
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot  1678
‘Effect of the Machine on the Countryman’s Work, Life, and Community’ (typescript)  166
Essays in Criticism  143
Hough on  232 n. 37
‘The Idea of Culture’  15960, 161, 1623
Industrial Revolution  157, 158, 159, 161, 164, 1667, 169, 170, 171, 1727, 180, 1812, 203
‘The Isolation of Culture’ (typescript)  1667
Keywords  156, 157
on Knights’s Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson  91
‘Literature in Relation to History’ course  164, 1878
The Long Revolution  24, 158, 183, 2014
reviews  2046
Politics and Letters  157, 179
reading public  203
‘Review of The Structure of Complex Words  172, 229 n. 28
‘The Soviet Literary Controversy in Retrospect’  165
Welshness  210
Williams, W. E.  191
Wilson, Edmund  12
Winch, Donald  72
Wolff, Michael  198
Woodham-Smith, Cecil  9
Woodward, E. L.  26
Woolf, Virginia  24
Bantock on  195
Eliot’s ‘A Neglected Aspect of Chapman’ lecture  33
Leavis (Q. D.)’s Fiction and the Reading Public  131
Wordsworth, William
and de Sélincourt  6
and Eliot  86
The Excursion  85, 160
Prelude  15960, 161
and Richards  130
Romantic revival  82
and Willey  856, 87, 89, 101
and Williams  15960, 161, 1623
World War One see First World War
Yeats, W. B.
‘Fragments’  24
in Knights’s writings  93, 223 n. 48
literary history  20
Young, G. M.
‘Literature in Relation to History’ course  187
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age  74, 197