Modernism at the Microphone - Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II

As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II is a comprehensive study of the role modernist writers'' radio works played in the propaganda war and the relationship between modernist literary aesthetics and propaganda. Drawing on new archival research, the book covers the broadcast work of such key figures as George Orwell, Orson Welles, Dorothy L. Sayers, Louis MacNeice, Mulk Raj Anand, T.S. Eliot, and P.G. Wodehouse. In addition to the work of Anglo-American modernists, Melissa Dinsman also explores the radio work of exiled German writers, such as Thomas Mann, as well as Ezra Pound''s notorious pro-fascist broadcasts. In this way, the book reveals modernism''s engagement with new technologies that opened up transnational boundaries under the pressures of war.>

About the author

Melissa Dinsman is a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Melissa (Lecturer Dinsman, Melissa Dinsman, Melissa (Lecturer Dinsman
• Assisted by: Matthew Feldman (Editor), Erik Tonning (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781350028456
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02845-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Historicizing Modernism; Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Radio / Podcasts, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General