An edition of The literal imagination
(2002)
The literal imagination
selected essays
by Ian P. Watt
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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.
Publish Date
2002
Publisher
Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship,
Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Language
English
Pages
269
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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.
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Includes index.
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