Aviation In The Literature And Culture Of Interwar Britain

Author : Michael McCluskey,Luke Seaber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030605551

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Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain by Michael McCluskey,Luke Seaber Pdf

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.

Author : Ann Catherine Hoag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040095829

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Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era by Ann Catherine Hoag Pdf

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts. This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women’s travel writing between the wars and synthesises and applies a variety of feminist, narrative, and postcolonial theories to excavate new understandings of the intersection between women, travel, and time in writing. The book studies the emergence of the aviatrix after the Great War and moves through to the representations of war in women’s travel on the brink of World War II. Each chapter offers a unique theoretical framework and examines how experiences of time impact perceptions of women’s bodies and identities, their engagement with history and discourse, and the problematic influence on colonialism. Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era is essential reading to any student or researcher in the field of women’s travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.

Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009192545

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Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature by Derek Ryan Pdf

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts – from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game – became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enrichens our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War.

Author : Jason Finch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000467529

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Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It by Jason Finch Pdf

Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities’ ‘spatial turn’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as tools for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modern, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of actual writers, texts and places. The third unit covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Multiple key categories of place are explored: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; residential areas such as the ‘slum’, suburb and mass housing district; hubs of publishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. In each chapter key terms, reflection questions and tasks labelled ‘Research It’ support reference and learning. Some Research It tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology and urban studies. Others equip users by sharpening particular skills of writing or documentation. A thorough glossary of key terms and concepts aids the reader. Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is designed for application to literatures and cities in any period and part of the world. Armed with it, humanities researchers at any career stage can develop their interdisciplinary skills and ability to participate in activism and public debates while becoming specialised in LUS. The book is a gateway to practicing LUS and spatial literary research.

Author : Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422559

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Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War by Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter Pdf

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025270854

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England and the Aeroplane by David Edgerton Pdf

"This essay argues that 20th century England should be seen as a technological, industrial and militant nation. It is a refutation of many of the arguments of "declinists" like Martin Wiener, Correlli Barnett and Perry Anderson. Contrary to myth, English aviation and the aircraft industry were strong, due to the vital place that technology had in English "liberal militarism", as well as English enthusiasm for, rather than fear of, the aeroplane. This enthusiasm was predominantly right-wing and sometimes pro-Nazi. The book also shows how many firms opposed central elements of 1930s rearmament policy, and that a famous aircraft firm was nationalized during World War II, and how the 1945-51 Labour government "privatized" aircraft plants and jet engine design. In the 1950s the aeroplane remained central to the "warfare state" but also became the symbol of a new manufacturing England, a situation which Harold Wilson's "White Heat" sought to change. " -- Blackwells.

Author : Brett Holman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317022633

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The Next War in the Air by Brett Holman Pdf

In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448749

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Warfare State by David Edgerton Pdf

A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It will be essential reading for those working on the history and historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical sociology of war and the history of science and technology.

Author : Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:934775477

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To the North by Elizabeth Bowen Pdf

Author : Andrekos Varnava,Michael J.K. Walsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000806083

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Popular Culture and Its Relationship to Conflict in the UK and Australia since the Great War by Andrekos Varnava,Michael J.K. Walsh Pdf

This book shows how cultural production derived from, or in anticipation of, conflict can be used to create specific social identities, national histories, and contemporary concepts of memory in Britain and Australia. Studies on the politics of cultural production have usually focussed on one conflict, or on one particular cultural medium, at a time. This volume, however, presents a broader horizon to draw attention to more popular forms of cultural production from the Great War up to and including its Centenary. The chapters in this volume interrogate the contentious philosophical notion that culture thrives in times of war, and expires in peace, and asks whether ‘art’, as a form of social barometer, can anticipate conflict rather than merely respond to it. This is a fascinating read for students, researchers, and academics interested in British and Australian History and its relationship with Popular Culture. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Michael John Law
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474285025

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1938: Modern Britain by Michael John Law Pdf

In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that year was far more modern than might have been thought. By considering topics as diverse as the opening of a new type of pub, the launch of several new magazines, the emergence of push-button radios and large screen televisions sets, and the building of a huge office block, he reveals a Britain, both modern and intrigued by its own modernity, that was stopped in its tracks by war and the austerity that followed. For some, life in Britain was as consumerist, secular, Americanized and modern as it would become for many in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Presenting a fresh perspective on an important year in British social history, illuminated by six engaging case studies, this is a key study for students and scholars of 20th-century Britain.

Author : Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones,Malcolm Llewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0415391822

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British Naval Aviation During the Interwar Era, 1919-1939 by Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones,Malcolm Llewell Pdf

This is a reproduction of the Naval Staff Historywhich was originally issued confidentially within the Admiralty for use within the Royal Navy. Containing classified material never previously published and including a new foreword by the First Sea Lord, this is the only book to provide a detailed history of the developments in British aviation during the interwar period and the early years of the Second World War. Key themes are explored in two parts: naval aviation before the Second World War early war developments. Dealing with the controversial issues of divided control between the Royal Navy and the RAF, this book also details the evolution of the air weapon and its influence on the general conduct of naval operations in the Second World War, and the subsequent effect these developments made in our methods of waging naval air warfare. The detailed technical and operational histories and sensitive source material make this book an indispensable reference for all students of Naval History, War Studies and the Second World War and will also be of great interest to veteran groups and naval enthusiasts.

Author : Clive Bloom,Gary Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022381706

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Literature and Culture in Modern Britain by Clive Bloom,Gary Day Pdf

Gary Day examines the role of culture in key developments in British society during the period 1930 to 1955 and presents a valuable historical perspective on current debates about the nature and role of culture in society.

Author : Patrick Deer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199239887

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Culture in Camouflage by Patrick Deer Pdf

Examines how literary writers including Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, James Hanley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and others countered the war culture promoted by mass media, war planners, and military historians.

Author : Frank Ledwidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 9780198804314

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Aerial Warfare: a Very Short Introduction by Frank Ledwidge Pdf

Aerial warfare has dominated Western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping global history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage.Ae