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An edition of The literal imagination (2002)

The literal imagination

selected essays

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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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Language
English
Pages
269

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Subjects

English literature, History and criticism, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1939-1945, English literature, history and criticism, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese

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The literal imagination: selected essays
2002, Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Palo Alto, Calif, Stanford, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9
Library of Congress
PR99 .W36 2002, PR99.W36 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
269

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3553537M
ISBN 10
0930664248, 0930664256
LCCN
2002005854
OCLC/WorldCat
49602431
Goodreads
2997024
987913

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