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Ian Watt : the novel and the wartime critic / Marina MacKay.

Author/creator	MacKay, Marina, 1975- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date	©2018
Description	vi, 228 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm.
Subjects	Watt, Ian, 1917-1999. Criticism--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Influence. War and literature. Prisoners of war--Great Britain. --Biography. Teachers--20th century. --Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. --Biography.

Portion of title	Novel and the wartime critic
Series	Oxford mid-century studies Oxford mid-century studies. ^A1368748
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. The prison-camp English department.
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 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: MacKay, Marina, 1975- Ian Watt. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780192558503
Genre/form	Biography.
LCCN	2018906174
ISBN	0198824998 hardcover
ISBN	9780198824992 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book

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