| Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic Contributor(s): MacKay, Marina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198824998 ISBN-13: 9780198824992 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 2018906174 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 238 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 labourer 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. |