Writing the Radio War : Literature, Politics, and the BBC, 1939-1945
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture
ISBN-10
1474413595
ISBN-13
9781474413596
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 5th, 2018
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 16.40 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
RadioLiterary studies: generalSecond World WarWarfare & defence
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Writing the Radio War merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.
Writing the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features Department, frontline reporting by Denis Johnston, and the emergence of a West Indian literary identity in the broadcasts of Una Marson, Writing the Radio War explores how these writers capitalised on the particularities of the sonic medium to communicate their visions of wartime and postwar Britain and its empire. By combining literary aesthetics with the acoustics of space, accent, and dialect, writers created aural communities that at times converged, and at times contended, with official wartime versions of Britain and Britishness.
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