Internationally acclaimed literary critic and author Ian Watt died on Monday, Dec. 13, after a long illness. At the time of his death he had been at the Menlo Park Place nursing home for a year ...

Dr Ian J Watt AC has had a long career as one of Australia’s most distinguished public servants, with nearly 20 years at the highest levels of the public service. His most recent and most senior appointment was as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and head of the Australian Public Service, a position he held from ...

Ian Watt (9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University. His The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957) is an important work in the history of the genre. Published in 1957, The Rise of the Novel is considered by many contemporary literary scholars as the seminal work on the origins …

Ian Watt (1917-1999) Related: history of fiction - literary criticism - literature - modern novel - novel. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (1957) - Ian Watt [Amazon.com] Biography. Literary critic and literary historian Ian Watt (1917-1999) was a professor of English at Stanford University.

One of the earliest English-language contributions to the sociology of literature is The Rise of the Novel (1957) by Ian Watt, Professor of English at Stanford University. For Watt, the novel's 'novelty' was its 'formal realism', the idea 'that the novel is a full and authentic report of human experience'. [17]

Dr Ian Watt AC. Non-Executive Director. Dr Ian Watt joined the Champions of Change Founding Group in 2012. Dr Ian J Watt AC has had a long career as one of Australia’s most distinguished public servants, with nearly 20 years at the highest levels of the public service. His most recent and most senior appointment was as Secretary of the ...

Jul 24, 2019 · Ian went on to further study at La Trobe University, completing a Master of Economics in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1987. In 1999 Dr Watt studied at Harvard University, completing the Advanced Management Program. With nearly 20 years’ experience at the highest levels of the public service, Dr Watt has demonstrated dedication to the ...

Reviews Praise for the new (2001) edition: "Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel still seems to me far and away the best book ever written on the early English novel—wise, humane, beautifully organized and expressed, one of the absolutely indispensable critical works in modern literary scholarship.And W. B. Carnochan's brilliant introduction does a wonderful job of showing how …