Ian Watt discusses the panoramic and complicated development of modern fiction by situating the modern novel in general, and the fiction of Joseph Conrad in particular, within a nexus of biographical and historical perspectives.
At the time of this interview, Watt was professor of humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding and Conrad in the Nineteenth Century.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
