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English
Bloomsbury Academic
23 March 2017
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.

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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   376g
ISBN:   9781350028456
ISBN 10:   1350028452
Series:   Historicizing Modernism
Pages:   264
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

Reviews for Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II

[An] account of the various ways in which many of Modernism's greatest names interacted with the radio ... The most compelling sections delineate the fruitful interactions of unlikely collaborators. * Times Literary Supplement * [This book] is thought-provoking and informative. It adds to a dynamic and engaging field with readings of a variety of authors both well known and less studied. * Review of English Studies * An informative overview of radio in relation to key modernist figures and to modernist aesthetics more generally. It conveys both contemporary reservations regarding radio as a form of mass communication and some of the ways in which it helped to inspire modernist innovation. * The Year's Work in English Studies *


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