The literal imagination
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Ian Watt ; edited by Bruce Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, Bruce.
Publisher: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship; Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Palo Alto, Calif; Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Description: "This volume brings together previously uncollected essays by Ian Watt, one of the major literary critics of the later twentieth century, famed equally for his distinguished work on Joseph Conrad and for his pioneering investigation into the genesis of English prose fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Serious reflections on the rise of the novel; title: The Augustan age; title: The ironic voice; title: Publishers and sinners : the Augustan view; title: Flat-footed and fly-blown : the realities of realism; title: Defoe as novelist; title: The novelist as innovator : Samuel Richardson; title: On reading Joseph Andrews; title: The comic syntax of Tristram Shandy; title: Time and family in the Gothic novel : the castle of Otranto; title: Jane Austen and the traditions of comic aggression; title: Oral Dickens; title: The first paragraph of the ambassadors : an explication; title: Winston Smith : the last humanist; title: The humanities on the River Kwai.