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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Oxford mid-century studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Lt Ian Watt, POW
- 2. Defoe's Individualism and the Camp Entrepreneurs
- 3. Richardson, Identification, and Commercial Fantasy
- 4. Chaos in the Social Order: Fielding and Conrad
- 5. Realist Criticism and the Mid-Century Novel
- 6. Prison-Camp English Department.