Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic
Marina MacKay, "Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic "
English | ISBN: 0198824998 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 558 KB
English | ISBN: 0198824998 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 558 KB
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.
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