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English by Example: F. R. Leavis and the Americanization of Modern England

Raymond Williams tells a story about F. R. Leavis from their years teaching together at Cambridge. At a meeting in 1961 to consider a new course on the novel, Williams recalls that “There was one major argument . . . The crux was whether the paper should be the English novel, or the novel in general. [Leavis] wanted the English novel only. A majority were against him.”1 After Leavis rejects the inclusion of European novels, in part because of the difficulties of translation, a committee member poses a further question: “‘Then what about American novelists? Faulkner, for example’” (LRI, 117). Williams notes,