Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime CriticBefore his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which