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.
| ISBN | 9780198824992 |
| Autor(a) | Mackay, Marina |
| Editora | Oxford Univ Pr |
| Ano de edição | 2019 |
| Páginas | 238 |
| Acabamento | Capa Dura |
| Dimensões | 21,80 X 14,50 |