Liberal Arts Faculty Books
Title
Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945
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Description
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.
ISBN
9781474413596
Publication Date
3-1-2018
Relational Format
book
Department
English
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles
Recommended Citation
Whittington, Ian, "Writing the Radio War: Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945" (2018). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 163.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/163