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Index
Cover page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1. Lt Ian Watt, POW
Departures
Capture
On the Line
Recording the ‘Kwai’
The Rise of the Novel Revisited
2. Defoe’s Individualism and the Camp Entrepreneurs
King Rat
Cannibals
‘Perceptions of not really being alive’
‘What care they to Die, that can’t tell how to Live?’
3. Richardson, Identification, and Commercial Fantasy
Constructing the Kwai Myth
Formal Realism and Pseudo-Realism
Suffering like a Heroine
4. Chaos in the Social Order: Fielding and Conrad
‘The adaptation of the individual to society’
Affirmations of Retrospect
‘The power of doing what we please’
Modern Augustans, Modern Memory
5. Realist Criticism and the Mid-Century Novel
The Return of the ‘Real’
Prose and the Problem of Truthfulness
Taking the Side of ‘Things’
Haunting the Courtroom
Allegories of Imprisonment
6. The Prison-Camp English Department
Literature in History
Creative Writing on the River Kwai
The Uses of Literature
Bibliography
Index
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