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Author Whittington, Ian, author.

Title Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages)
Series Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture
Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.
Contents Introduction : Projecting Britain -- Out of the people : J.B. Priestley's broadbrow radicalism -- James Hanley and the shape of the Wartime Features Department -- To build the falling castle : Louis MacNeice and the drama of form -- Versions of neutrality : Denis Johnston's War Reports -- Calling the West Indies : Una Marson's wireless Black Atlantic -- Coda : Coronation
Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Ian Whittington is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he researches and teaches British and Anglophone culture, with a focus on the intersection of radio and literature in the twentieth century. His work has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Modernism/modernity, Safundi, and elsewhere. Though now often to be found listening to All Things Considered and Radiolab, he cut his teeth on As It Happens and Cross Country Checkup
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Subject British Broadcasting Corporation -- History
SUBJECT British Broadcasting Corporation fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Radio broadcasting and the war
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Politics and government
Radio broadcasting and war
Social aspects
War and literature
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056919
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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