Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1150
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198824992
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is an intellectual biography of Ian Watt: influential literary critic, and former soldier, POW, and slave labourer. In addition to extensive transatlantic archival work, its research extended from the history of literary criticism to human rights law and military history. Situating Watt’s criticism in the context of a wide range of mid-century novels and memoirs—from canonical authors to forgotten soldier-writers—the book argues for the centrality of the war to our historiography of the novel, and of twentieth-century literary studies more largely.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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