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The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English
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Ian Watt (1917-99) was a Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. During the Second World War he worked as a prisoner on the construction of the notorious Burma Railway before turning to the study of English literature. The Rise of the Novel (1957) was the first of a dozen books he wrote and is widely regarded as the seminal work in the study of the novel. His other books include Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979), Conrad: Nostromo (1988) and Myths of Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe (1998).
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"A major contribution to the subject, in some respects the most brilliant that has appeared ... as enlivening and enriching as the works themselves" Times Educational Supplement "An important, compendious work of inquiring scholarship...alive with ideas" -- V S Pritchett New Statesman
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0712664270
- ISBN 13 9780712664271
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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