Arnold Kettle
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Arnold Charles Kettle (17 March 1916 ā 24 December 1986)[1] was a British Marxist literary critic, most noted for his authorship of the two-volume work An Introduction to the English Novel (1951).
Kettle was born in Ealing, London, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Apostle.[1][2] Influenced by F. R. Leavis in his academic writings, he was a man of the left politically and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1936, remaining a member for the rest of his life. He was the Open Universityās first professor of literature and worked there until his retirement in 1981.[1][3][4]
His son is the journalist Martin Kettle.[5]