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... of essays, The Literal Imagination, by Ian Watt. Collected posthumously (the author died in 1991), they attracted very little attention. Yet Watt had written a book, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, that from the moment of its publication (1957) had been recognized...

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... a prisoner of war by the Japanese profoundly influenced Watt in everything he wrote. Her style, driven by far- ranging literary curiosity, is at once inclusive and digressive, but she never loses focus on Watt s literary interests in individual enterprise (Defoe) and interiority (Richardson) and ostensibly...

..., constructed. Her argument is clear: being made a prisoner of war by the Japanese profoundly influenced Watt in everything he wrote. Her style, driven by far- ranging literary curiosity, is at once inclusive and digressive, but she never loses focus on Watt s literary interests in individual enterprise (Defoe...

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... It will Seriously? touched, the beauty, or the flavour, or the seed theseed of shopkeepis flavour,it lost.”beauty,or Colonial the the touched, Tradesman in warned Defoe Daniel imaginable,” nature nicest ofis the ofit. “Adefense their reputation tradesman’s in were shopkeepers vigilant careful away...

... by staging it as spiritual theater. We hear about these hazards in “He and His Man,” when the speaker (Robinson Crusoe) is describing “his man” (Defoe) as a “reporter” dedicated to realism. Defoe is reporting on the plague: He remains in afflicted London and sets about writing reports. I came upon a crowd...

... being within the world of the novel, while at the same time standing for a type and being rec- ognized as such by the reader. All our major novelists, from Defoe to Trollope, will have been acquainted with character- writing and many of them wrote characters themselves: Dickens and Thackeray...