{"product_id":"ian-watt-marina-mackay-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 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marina MacKay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198824998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198824992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019","brand":"Marina MacKay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914248257791,"sku":"9780198824992","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a0e7896d-0eb7-44ea-abe9-66d2747b0e6b.jpg?v=1680641199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ian-watt-marina-mackay-9780198824992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}