{"product_id":"ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-9780198824992","title":"Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic","description":"Before 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. \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\u003cbr\u003econditions. \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\u003cbr\u003eaftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marina MacKay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198824992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePMLA, ELH\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; History\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932113780851,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_30b6fb81-e999-4094-8945-046d8468bd62.jpg?v=1647790342","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-9780198824992","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}