Broadcasting in the Modernist Era

Matthew Feldman is Reader in contemporary history at Teesside University, UK.Henry Mead is a Research Associate at Teesside University, UK, and Bergen University, Norway. Erik Tonning is Research Director of the Modernism and Christianity project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury.

[An] excellent and wide-ranging collection... Broadcasting in the Modernist Era is essential reading.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceIntroductionMatthew Feldman, Erik Tonning, & Henry Mead.PART ONE: BROADCASTING CULTURE IN THE MODERNIST ERA‘Pub, Parlour, Theatre: Radio in the Imagination of W. B. Yeats’.Charles Armstrong.‘Early Television and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: New Technology and Flawed Power’.Finn Fordham.‘“I often wish you could answer me back: and so perhaps do you!” E. M. Forster and BBC Radio Broadcasting’.Peter Fifield.‘Dorothy L. Sayer’s: The Man Born To Be King. The “Impersonation” of Divinity: Language, Authenticity and Embodiment’.Alex Goody. ‘T.S. Eliot on the Radio: “The Drama is All In the Word”’.Steven Matthews. ‘David Jones: Christian Modernism at the BBC’.Erik Tonning.PART TWO: BROADCASTING POLITICS IN THE MODERNIST ERA ‘Rambling Round Words: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Broadcasting’.Randi Koppen. ‘J.B. Priestley: By Radio to a New Britain’.David Addyman.‘“A mild flavour of defiance”: George Orwell at the BBC’Henry Mead.‘Radio Broadcasting in Fascist Italy: between censorship, total control, Jazz and Futurism’.Massimo Ragnedda.‘Pound and Radio Treason: An empirical reassessment’.Matthew Feldman.‘“Conquering the virtual public”: Jean-Paul Sartre’s La Tribune des Temps Modernes and the Radio in France’.Alys Moody.AfterwordDaniela Caselli