ABSTRACT
Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney Nicholas Boyle makes the case for the study of literature by invoking 'the Leavisite belief that literature is uniquely able to express our condition and guide our response to it'. Central to that belief is R. Leavis's sense of, to quote Boyle again, 'that initial immediacy between word and thing and moral meaning', which is 'something giv.
