Modernism at the microphone : radio, propaganda, and literary aesthetics during World War II / Melissa Dinsman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

"As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II is a comprehensive study of the role modernist writers' radio works played in the propaganda war and the relationship between modernist literary aesthetics and propaganda. Drawing on new archival research, the book covers the broadcast work of such key figures as George Orwell, Orson Welles, Dorothy L. Sayers, Louis MacNeice, Mulk Raj Anand, T.S. Eliot, and P.G. Wodehouse. In addition to the work of Anglo-American modernists, Melissa Dinsman also explores the radio work of exiled German writers, such as Thomas Mann, as well as Ezra Pound's notorious pro-fascist broadcasts. In this way, the book reveals modernism's engagement with new technologies that opened up transnational boundaries under the pressures of war."--Bloomsbury Publishing

FC -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Voices of War -- Voices of the wireless revolution -- Voices of contradiction -- Voices of the radio war -- 1. War on the Air -- Radio's fascism and the violence of the voice -- It's the end of the world as we know it -- 2. Militarizing the Messiah -- I heard the voice of Jesus say -- A Christ for World War II -- 3. Transatlantic Crossings -- MacNeice crosses the Atlantic -- Propaganda, poetry, and the radio -- Conquering the new world -- 4. Propaganda, Literature, and New Networks -- Orwell's ambivalence -- London calling -- Orwell loses his radio voice -- 5. Clogged Communication -- A hopeful transmission -- Can't get through to you -- Please Mr. Postman -- 6. Haunted Network -- Modernist hauntings -- Mann's ghosts -- Extending the network -- Epilogue: A Voice from the Other Side -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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