{"product_id":"ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-hardcover","title":"Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarina MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore his masterpiece \u003cem\u003eThe Rise of the Novel \u003c\/em\u003emade 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth 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. \u003cem\u003eIan Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic \u003c\/em\u003eargues 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarina MacKay, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor in the Faculty of English and Tutorial Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarina MacKay is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford. Her books include \u003cem\u003eModernism and World War II\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to the Novel\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). Her articles on mid-century writing have appeared in a range of journals including \u003cem\u003ePMLA, ELH\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; History\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376704929970,"sku":"9780198824992","price":82.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/321123c8685f2c2eec7d56c0ecf0626f.webp?v=1777708645","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}