Research Catalog

Title

Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington.

Author

Whittington, Ian

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

vii, 220 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'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.

Series Statement

Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture

Uniform Title

Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• History
• 1910-1945
• World War > (1939-1945)
• Social aspects
• Radio broadcasting and war
• Politics and government
• War and literature
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1910-1936
• World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Literature and the war
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain
• World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Radio broadcasting and the war
• British Broadcasting Corporation History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical reference (pages 192-210) and index.

Contents

1. Out of the People: J.B. Priestley's Broadbrow Radicalism -- 2. James Hanley and the Shape of the Wartime Features Department -- 3. To Build the Falling Castle: Louis MacNeice and the Drama of Form -- 4. Versions of Neutrality: Denis Johnston's War Reports -- 5. Calling the West Indies: Una Marson's Wireless Black Atlantic.

Call Number

JFE 22-821

ISBN

• 9781474413596
• 1474413595
• 9781474452540
• 147445254X

LCCN

2017277646

OCLC

1012636955

Author

Whittington, Ian, author.

Title

Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture

Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 192-210) and index.

Chronological Term

1910-1945

Other Form:

Electronic version: 9781474413619

Research Call Number

JFE 22-821