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L'Inghilterra del XVIII secolo vide non solo la nascita e gli sviluppi del più fortunato tra i generi letterari, il romanzo, ma anche profondissimi sconvolgimenti di costume che portarono alla formazione di un diverso e inedito pubblico di lettori. Quest'opera ormai classica di Ian Watt, nello stilare un'analisi attenta a metà tra letteratura, sociologia e storia del costume, spiega come il nuovo pubblico influenzò l'evoluzione e la fortuna de...

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In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. A century later, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favourable consideration of the individual. Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historic...

With penetrating and original readings of their works, as well as those of Jane Austen, who further developed and popularised it, he explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the emergence of the middle-class and the new social position of women - gave rise to its success.

Landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.

In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. A century later, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favourable consideration of the individual. Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historic...

Landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial literary masterpieces.

Individualism as explored in four modern novels: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Robinson Crusoe.