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Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at
the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and
1930s. This book considers how in this period flying went from a
weapon of war to an extensive industry that included civilian air
travel, air mail delivery, flying shows and campaigns to create
'airmindedness'. Essays look at these developments through the work
of writers, filmmakers and flyers and examines the airminded
modernism that marked this radical period. Its fourteen chapters
include studies of texts by Virginia Woolf, George Orwell,
Elizabeth Bowen, W.H. Auden, T.H. White and John Masefield;
accounts of the annual RAF Display at Hendon and the Schneider
Trophy; and the achievements of celebrity flyers such as Amy
Johnson. This collection provides a fresh perspective on the
interwar period by bringing analysis of aviation and airmindedness
to the study of British literature, history, modernism, mobilities
and the history of technology and transportation.
Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at
the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and
1930s. This book considers how in this period flying went from a
weapon of war to an extensive industry that included civilian air
travel, air mail delivery, flying shows and campaigns to create
'airmindedness'. Essays look at these developments through the work
of writers, filmmakers and flyers and examines the airminded
modernism that marked this radical period. Its fourteen chapters
include studies of texts by Virginia Woolf, George Orwell,
Elizabeth Bowen, W.H. Auden, T.H. White and John Masefield;
accounts of the annual RAF Display at Hendon and the Schneider
Trophy; and the achievements of celebrity flyers such as Amy
Johnson. This collection provides a fresh perspective on the
interwar period by bringing analysis of aviation and airmindedness
to the study of British literature, history, modernism, mobilities
and the history of technology and transportation.
This book is the first full critical history of incognito social
investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their
authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous
example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a
vast array of other works in the genre since it was created in 1866
by James Greenwood's 'A Night in a Workhouse'. It draws up a
classification of incognito social investigation texts, dividing
them into four subtypes. The first comprises those texts following
most narrowly in James Greenwood's footsteps, taking the extreme
poor as their object of study. The next is the investigation of
poverty through walking, for pedestrianism and poverty are
fascinatingly linked. The third is that of people looking at
relative poverty rather than absolute, where authors take on
badly-paid work in order to report on it, which is when incognito
social investigation becomes very much something carried out by
women. We end looking at those incognito social investigators who
settled in the areas they explored. Not only will this book recover
the history of a genre that has long been ignored, however, but it
will also offer significant close reading of many of the texts that
it places within the tradition(s) it discovers.
This book is the first full critical history of incognito social
investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their
authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous
example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a
vast array of other works in the genre since it was created in 1866
by James Greenwood's 'A Night in a Workhouse'. It draws up a
classification of incognito social investigation texts, dividing
them into four subtypes. The first comprises those texts following
most narrowly in James Greenwood's footsteps, taking the extreme
poor as their object of study. The next is the investigation of
poverty through walking, for pedestrianism and poverty are
fascinatingly linked. The third is that of people looking at
relative poverty rather than absolute, where authors take on
badly-paid work in order to report on it, which is when incognito
social investigation becomes very much something carried out by
women. We end looking at those incognito social investigators who
settled in the areas they explored. Not only will this book recover
the history of a genre that has long been ignored, however, but it
will also offer significant close reading of many of the texts that
it places within the tradition(s) it discovers.
With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and
abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems
familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on ‘the
Auden generation’, this book surveys the literature of the period
in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and
postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this
way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and
cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major
critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers
as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha
Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm
Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina
Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.
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