Author: Mark Wollaeger File Type: pdf Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of todays highly propagandized world.Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.ReviewHighly recommended. . . . [This] book is well planned, carefully constructed, and assiduously substantiated. -- D. G. Izzo, ChoiceWollaeger gives [the debate about arts relationship to propaganda] new purchase by stressing the emergence of modern propaganda . . . and by showing how the last centurys propaganda outlets served as both a testing ground and a charger, a model, and a spur, for modernist innovation. . . . Modernism can help us resist propaganda today, Wollaeger suggests smartly, not because it has always kept its distance but because, from the beginning, it absorbed propagandas tricks. -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz, ModernismModernityMark Wollaegers sophisticated new book adds to the recent reshaping of our understanding of modernist-period media culture. . . . While one would expect such tours de force from Wollaeger, who is known for his work on Conrad and Joyce, it is his chapter on Ford Madox Ford that proves to be the volumes intellectual center. -- Debra Rae Cohen, ClioWhile many critical studies of British literary modernism promise to reveal new ways to contextualize modernism, few deliver with such accomplished originality as Mark Wollaegers Modernism, Media, and Propaganda. . . . Wollaegers book is a model of exemplary scholarship that . . . aptly speaks to our historical moment. -- Lissa Schneider, James Joyce Literary SupplementMark Wollaegers Modernism, Media, and Propaganda British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 is written in an approachable style with an engaging and often amusing personal voice. . . . This is a book in which the historical contextualising so in trend at the present time is allowed to sit comfortably and rewardingly beside more traditional close readings of canonical works. -- Yoshino Ayako, Studies in English LiteratureA carefully researched monograph, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda will likely appeal to those interested in historicist and close textual analyses, and perhaps less to those seeking more theoretical treatments of modernist prose and film. -- David Tomkins, European LegacyModernism, Media, and Propaganda is a rich and nuanced study of how modernism and propaganda were formed symbiotically as much as defined by difference. -- Elizabeth F. Evans, Woolf Studies Annual From the Inside FlapThis book has everything. It is scrupulously researched, lucidly and appealingly written, interdisciplinary in the most rigorous sense, thickly historicized, and forcefully argued.--Garrett Stewart, University of IowaThe thesis of Modernism, Media, and Propaganda is original and Mark Wollaegers readings in support of it are thorough, ingenious, and illuminating. This is an original, persuasive, and authoritative study.--Michael North, University of California, Los Angeles

Author: Mike Pincombe File Type: pdf This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political centralization that enabled and accompanied them the increasing emulation of Continental and classical literatures under the of humanism the self-conscious emergence of English as a literary language and determined creation of a native literary canon the beginnings of English empire and the consolidation of a sense of nationhood. However, study of Tudor literature prior to 1580 is not only of worth as a context, or foundation, for an Elizabethan golden age. As this much-needed volume will show, it is also of artistic, intellectual, and cultural merit in its own right. Written by experts from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, the forty-four chapters in *The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature * recover some of the distinctive voices of sixteenth-century writing, its energy, variety, and inventiveness. As well as essays on well-known writers, such as Philip Sidney or Thomas Wyatt, the volume contains the first extensive treatment in print of some of the Tudor eras most original voices.ReviewThe first major collection to survey literature from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, this book offers a wealth of information, especially about texts from the earlier, often-overlooked period...All the essays are of exceptionally high caliber. Essential. --ChoiceAbout the AuthorMike Pincombe is Professor of Tudor and Elizabethan Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne he convened the Tudor Symposium between 1998 and 2009. He has written books on John Lyly (1996) and Elizabethan Humanism (2001), and also essays and articles on a range of mid-Tudor topics. He is presently working on William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates.Cathy Shrank is Reader in Tudor Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2006) and essays and articles on various Tudor and Shakespearean topics, including language reform, civility, travel writing, cheap print, and mid-sixteenth-century sonnets. She is currently working on an edition of Shakespeares poems and a monograph on non-dramatic dialogue in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. It pays particular attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political centralization that enabled and accompanied them the increasing emulation of Continental and classical literatures under the influence of humanism the self-conscious emergence of English as a literary language and determined creation of a native literary canon the beginnings of English empire and the consolidation of a sense of nationhood. However, study of Tudor literature prior to 1580 is not only of worth as a context, or foundation, for an Elizabethan golden age. As this much-needed volume will show, it is also of artistic, intellectual, and cultural merit in its own right. Written by experts from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, the forty-five chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature recover some of the distinctive voices of sixteenth-century writing, its energy, variety, and inventiveness. As well as essays on well-known writers, such as Philip Sidney or Thomas Wyatt, the volume contains the first extensive treatment in print of some of the Tudor eras most original voices.