Description: About this Item The item is a book Hardback The Author Name is Ian Whittington The Title is Writing the Radio War : Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 224. Category - Literary Criticism Product Description - 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.Key FeaturesMerges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcastingBrings substantial but underused archival material from the BBC Written Archives Centre, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the British Library, and other archives to bear on the cultural importance of radio during the warForegrounds the role of radio in bridging literary movements from the highbrow to the middlebrow, and from the regional to the imperialDraws on Listener Research Reports, listener correspondence, newspaper coverage, and surveys by Mass Observation and the Wartime Social Survey in order to capture listeners' responses to wartime broadcasting in general as well as specific programsFills a gap in accounts of literary radio broadcasting, between Todd Avery's Radio Modernism which ends at 1939 and postwar accounts of the Third Programme by Humphrey Carpenter and Kate Whitehead and individual writer-broadcasters We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift IdeasThis is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 167494635
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Fiction/Non-Fiction: Non-Fiction
Genre/Subject: Literary Criticism
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Length: 226
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Title: Writing the Radio War Literature, Politics and the BBC, 1939-19
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Weight: 0.46
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Writing the Radio War : Literature, Politics, and the Bbc, 1939-1945
Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Radio / History & Criticism, Military / World War II, Industries / Media & Communications, Radio / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Business & Economics, History
Author: Ian Whittington
Item Length: 6.2 in
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in War and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 9.1 in
Format: Hardcover
