{"product_id":"ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-hardcover","title":"Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\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 novelabout the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishescan be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53489878434099,"sku":"9780198824992","price":89.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2GJgBCCtX9780198824992.webp?v=1781530135","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}