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What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years?
Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the
struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'fearlessly
determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the
traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics,
engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to
the 'star' reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley
and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this
book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside
writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering
their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems,
journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their
inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes
controversial and dangerous actions. -- .
Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling,
truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the
journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional
journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As
newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust
post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet
age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their role in
society today? In The Journalist in British Fiction and Film Sarah
Lonsdale traces the ways in which journalists and newspapers have
been depicted in fiction, theatre and film from the dawn of the
mass popular press to the present day. The book asks first how
journalists were represented in various distinct periods of the
20th century and then attempts to explain why these representations
vary so widely. This is a history of the British press, told not by
historians and sociologists, but by writers and directors as well
as journalists themselves. In uncovering dozens of forgotten
fictions, Sarah Lonsdale explores the bare-knuckled literary combat
conducted by writers contesting the disputed boundaries between
literature and journalism. Within these texts and films there is
perhaps also a clue as to how the best aspects of 'Fourth estate'
journalism can survive in the digital age. Authors covered in the
volume include: Martin Amis, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Pat
Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Wesker and Rudyard
Kipling. Television and films covered include House of Cards (US
and UK versions), Spotlight, Defence of the Realm, Secret State and
State of Play.
Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling,
truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the
journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional
journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As
newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust
post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet
age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their role in
society today? In The Journalist in British Fiction and Film Sarah
Lonsdale traces the ways in which journalists and newspapers have
been depicted in fiction, theatre and film from the dawn of the
mass popular press to the present day. The book asks first how
journalists were represented in various distinct periods of the
20th century and then attempts to explain why these representations
vary so widely. This is a history of the British press, told not by
historians and sociologists, but by writers and directors as well
as journalists themselves. In uncovering dozens of forgotten
fictions, Sarah Lonsdale explores the bare-knuckled literary combat
conducted by writers contesting the disputed boundaries between
literature and journalism. Within these texts and films there is
perhaps also a clue as to how the best aspects of 'Fourth estate'
journalism can survive in the digital age. Authors covered in the
volume include: Martin Amis, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Pat
Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Wesker and Rudyard
Kipling. Television and films covered include House of Cards (US
and UK versions), Spotlight, Defence of the Realm, Secret State and
State of Play.
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