Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 /
Whittington, Ian,
Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages). - Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture .
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.--
9781474444897
2017277646
British Broadcasting Corporation--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Radio broadcasting and the war.--Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.--Great Britain
Electronic Books.
D810 / .W758 2018
Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages). - Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture .
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.--
9781474444897
2017277646
British Broadcasting Corporation--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Radio broadcasting and the war.--Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.--Great Britain
Electronic Books.
D810 / .W758 2018