Leavy, Barbara Fass

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LEAVY, Barbara Fass

LEAVY, Barbara Fass. American, b. 1936. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, professor of English. Cornell University, adjunct professor of English in psychiatry. Publications: La Belle Dame sans Merci and the Aesthetics of Romanticism, 1974; (with P.S. Jacobsen) Ibsen's Forsaken Merman: Folklore in the Late Plays, 1988; To Blights with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme, 1992; In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender, 1993. Contributor of articles and reviews to literature journals. Address: Department of English, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, U.S.A.