Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic

by Marina MacKay

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198824998
• ISBN13: 9780198824992
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"