Status Updates From The Great Tradition: George...

A lot of you letting your brains atrophy not me tho

Quick note after the Eliot section. Leavis' fetish of moral instruction reads as patently absurd today, though you can't help but be jealous of the clarity it provides him as a reader. It leads him to a close reading of Daniel Deronda which serves as a defence of Eliot's tendency towards analysis which still feels remarkably vital. It is through her uncompromising willingness to think that she feels so deeply. Yes!

I deeply appriciate that Leavis views Conrad's attitude toward women as a weakness in his writing.

This dude really believes in the differences between genders. He frequently says things like, "this is obviously a woman's creation," and "only a woman could write this." Sometimes it's an insult, and sometimes it's a compliment. I wonder if he'll do the same thing when talking about the male authors...

I wish I remembered Middlemarch better, because I'm pretty sure I STRONGLY disagree with most of this commentary.