Unreasoning Vigour
Stefan Collini: Ian Watt, 9 May 2019
Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic
by Marina MacKay.
Oxford, 228 pp., £25, November 2018,978 0 19 882499 2 Show More
by Marina MacKay.
Oxford, 228 pp., £25, November 2018,
“... sophisticated work it is. Watt cites Lukács in German and Durkheim in French, alongside works by Weber, Troeltsch, Mannheim, Merton, Parsons, Radcliffe-Brown and more. In his preface he thanks Adorno, Henry Nash Smith, I.A. Richards, Talcott Parsons and Peter Laslett, among others. The standard caricature of the Cambridge-influenced criticism of the postwar ... ”