{"product_id":"ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-oxford-mid-century-studies-series-0198824998","title":"Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic (Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0198824998\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e MacKay, Marina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669142372640,"sku":"NEW0198824998","price":48.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61qDzs1vt2L.jpg?v=1779040058","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ian-watt-the-novel-and-the-wartime-critic-oxford-mid-century-studies-series-0198824998","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}