The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in
several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick
description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second
World War. With a focus on the 1930s through the 1960s, the series
concentrates on fiction, poetry, film, photography, theatre, as
well as art, architecture, design, and other media. The mid-century
is an age of shifting groups and movements, from existentialism
through abstract expressionism to confessional, serial, electronic,
and pop art styles. The series charts such intellectual movements,
even as it aids and abets the very best scholarly thinking about
the power of art in a world under new techno-political compulsions,
whether nuclear-apocalyptic, Cold War-propagandized, transnational,
neo-imperial, super-powered, or postcolonial. The Wireless Past
chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence
for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. This is the first
book-length study of Irish literary broadcasting on the BBC and
situates the works of W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice,
and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that
shaped their works. Drawing upon unpublished radio archives, this
book shows that radio broadcasting, rather than prompting a break
with literary history and traditional literary forms, in fact
served as an important means for reinterpreting the legacies of
oral and print traditions. In the years surrounding World War II,
radio came to be seen as a catalyst for literary revivals and,
simultaneously, a force for experimentation. This double valence of
radio-the conjoining of revivalism and experimentation-create a
distinctive radiogenic aesthetics in mid-century modernism.
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