Ian Watt ( Eng. Ian Watt , March 9, 1917 , Windermere, Cumbria - December 13, 1999 , Menlo Park, San Francisco Bay Area ) is an English and American literature historian.
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Biography
Graduated from cambridge . He participated in the Second World War (1939-1946), fought as an infantryman in Singapore , was wounded and was on the list of "missing, in all probability, killed". In fact, he spent three and a half years in Japanese captivity, building a bridge over the Kwai River in Thailand . Returning to his homeland and defending his thesis, from 1947 he taught at Cambridge, from 1952 - at Berkeley (until 1962 ), the University of British Columbia , and the University of East Anglia at Norwich . Since 1964 - professor at Stanford University , after the resignation - professor emeritus.
He lectured in Toronto and led seminars in Princeton . Director of the Stanford Center for the Humanities ( 1980 - 1985 ).
Watt's archive is in the Stanford University library.
Scientific Papers
The author of works on the works of D. Defoe , G. Fielding , L. Stern , Jane Austen , Walter Scott , Thomas Hardy , Joseph Conrad , etc. rationalism B. Spinoza , Rene Descartes , John Locke , on the one hand, and the formation of the general reading public, on the other. It retains significance for the history of English society, the sociology of literature and reading to the present day. Equally authoritative and influential for communication theories is his work The Consequences of Literacy ( 1963 ), co-written by Jack Goody and later included in the latest edition of Literacy in Traditional Societies ( 1968 ).
Publications
Books
- The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding ( 1957 )
- Jane Austen ( 1963 )
- The Victorian novel; modern essays in criticism ( 1971 )
- The British novel: Scott through Hardy ( 1973 )
- The humanities on the River Kwai ( 1982 , memoirs about being held captive)
- Myths of modern individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe ( 1996 )
- Essays on Conrad ( 2000 )
Consolidated Editions
- The Literal Imagination: Selected Essays / Bruce Thompson, ed. ( 2002 )
Recognition
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1972 ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Thompson B. Critical history: the career of Ian Watt. Stanford: Stanford Humanities Review; Stanford Humanities Center, 2000