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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Main Author: MacKay, Marina, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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.