Broadcasting in the Modernist Era

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The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe, which challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a global audience for their work. Historicizing these developments and drawing on new sources for research – including the BBC archives and other important collections - Broadcasting in the Modernist Era explores the ways in which canonical writers engaged with the new media of radio and television. Considering the interlinked areas of broadcasting ‘culture’ and politics’ in this period, the book engages the radio writing and broadcasts of such writers as Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Orwell, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, Dorothy L. Sayers, David Jones and Jean-Paul Sartre. With chapters by leading international scholars, the volume’s empirical-based approach aims to open up new avenues for understandings of radiogenic writing in the mass-media age. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Series Editor’s Preface Introduction: Broadcasting in the Modernist Era Part One: Broadcasting Culture in the Modernist Era 1 Pub, Parlour, Theatre: Radio in the Imagination of W. B. Yeats 2 Early Television and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: New Technology and Flawed Power 3 ‘I Often Wish You Could Answer Me Back: And So Perhaps Do You!’ E. M. Forster and BBC Radio Broadcasting 4 Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King: The ‘Impersonation’ of Divinity: Language, Authenticity and Embodiment 5 T. S. Eliot on the Radio: ‘The Drama Is All in the Word’ 6 David Jones: Christian Modernism at the BBC Part Two: Broadcasting Politics in the Modernist Era 7 Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting 8 J. B. Priestley: By Radio to a New Britain 9 ‘Keeping Our Little Corner Clean’: George Orwell’s Cultural Broadcasts at the BBC 10 Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: Between Censorship, Total Control, Jazz and Futurism 11 Pound and Radio Treason: An Empirical Reassessment 12 ‘Conquering the Virtual Public’: Jean-Paul Sartre’s La tribune des temps modernes and the Radio in France Afterword: The Gentle Art of Radio Broadcasting Index