Todd Avery

Radio Modernism

Literature, Ethics, and the Bbc, 1922-1938

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Weaving together the BBC's institutional history and developments in ethical philosophy, Todd Avery shows how the involvement of writers like T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf with radio helped to shape the ethical contours of literary modernism. His book recaptures for a twenty-first-century audience the interest, fascination, excitement, and often consternation that British radio induced in its literary listeners following its inception in 1922.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780754655176
• ISBN-10: 0754655172
• Artikelnr.: 44972494

Autorenporträt

Professor Todd Avery is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Modernism in the air
Arnold over Britain? John Reith and broadcasting morality
Common talkers: the Bloomsbury group and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting
A natural selection: H.G. Wells and a Huxleyan ethics of communications
Talks toward a definition of morality: T.S. Eliot and the consecration of broadcasting
Conclusion
Works cited
Index.