Ian Watt : the novel and the wartime critic /
Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced laborer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Oxford mid-century studies.
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| Summary: | Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced laborer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world. These were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novel, about the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral and psychological work that the novel accomplishes, can be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 228 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198824998 9780198824992 |