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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.--jacket. Serious Reflections On The Rise Of The Novel -- The Augustan Age -- The Ironic Voice -- Publishers And Sinners : The Augustan View -- Flat-footed And Fly-blown : The Realities Of Realism -- Defoe As Novelist -- The Novelist As Innovator : Samuel Richardson -- On Reading Joseph Andrews -- The Comic Syntax Of Tristram Shandy -- Time And Family In The Gothic Novel : The Castle Of Otranto -- Jane Austen And The Traditions Of Comic Aggression -- Oral Dickens -- The First Paragraph Of The Ambassadors : An Explication -- Winston Smith : The Last Humanist -- The Humanities On The River Kwai. Ian Watt ; Edited By Bruce Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Ian Watt

Publisher

Palo Alto, Calif.: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship ; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780930664244

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities