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Literature in the First Media Age Britain between the Wars

Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780674073159
Publisert
2013-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Trotter, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Trotter is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Literature in the First Media Age Britain between the Wars

Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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<i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> offers us a new way of approaching literary history… Governed not by politics or aesthetics, and populated by H. D. as well as [Thomas] Hancock, Clark Gable as well as Lawrence, Trotter’s new history takes the things with which we fill our lives—our books, our films and the technical and then social protocols dictating their uses as its focalizing issues. What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.

- Calum Mechie, Times Literary Supplement

A highly learned account of how new ‘connective’ media (generally the ones with ‘tele-’ in front) changed the nature of narrative in inter-war British literature… The long decade [Trotter] covers was an astonishing epoch in British life and writing and he illuminates its contexts, its competing utopianism and glumly retro anxiety (the end of polite culture! the disappearance of craft! a world too big and too impersonal!). He covers it with an unerring eye for detail and ear for tonal shifts in how we represented ourselves.

- Brian Morton, Sunday Herald

Trotter provides an original study of the influence on British literature (1927–39) of media that were new in the period between the wars… He provides an innovative, richly detailed historical snapshot.

- M. DelloBuono, Choice

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David Trotter’s brilliant study is a radical exploration of literature in its relations to technologies and material cultures between the wars. It offers inspired new ways of understanding the preoccupations and aspirations of a period, through models of connectivity and communication which will displace our now familiar maps of early twentieth-century texts and contexts. <i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> is surprising and illuminating at every turn.

- Laura Marcus, University of Oxford,

<i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> is a work of exhilarating virtuosity and great interpretative power. Elegantly conceived, original, inventive and generative, it will stand as an indispensable text in modernist studies.<br />

- Michael Levenson, University of Virginia,

The originality of the work shows itself in every chapter. We can be grateful to David Trotter for changing our understanding of a decisive epoch in cultural history.

- Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine,

The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to portray communication by telephone, television, radio, and sound cinema—and to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday modern life.New media and new materials gave writers a fresh opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how literature might be written. Today, Trotter observes, such material and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive. Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period between the World Wars. In defining what they achieved, this book creates a new literary canon of works distinguished formally and thematically by their alertness to the implications of new media and new materials.
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Communications technology is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. Some of the writers who first woke up to this fact lived and wrote in Britain between the World Wars. Here, David Trotter creates a new literary canon of works distinguished by their alertness to the implications of new media and materials.
Les mer
Literature in the First Media Age offers us a new way of approaching literary history… Governed not by politics or aesthetics, and populated by H. D. as well as [Thomas] Hancock, Clark Gable as well as Lawrence, Trotter’s new history takes the things with which we fill our lives—our books, our films and the technical and then social protocols dictating their uses as its focalizing issues. What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.
Les mer

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<i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> offers us a new way of approaching literary history… Governed not by politics or aesthetics, and populated by H. D. as well as [Thomas] Hancock, Clark Gable as well as Lawrence, Trotter’s new history takes the things with which we fill our lives—our books, our films and the technical and then social protocols dictating their uses as its focalizing issues. What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.

- Calum Mechie, Times Literary Supplement

A highly learned account of how new ‘connective’ media (generally the ones with ‘tele-’ in front) changed the nature of narrative in inter-war British literature… The long decade [Trotter] covers was an astonishing epoch in British life and writing and he illuminates its contexts, its competing utopianism and glumly retro anxiety (the end of polite culture! the disappearance of craft! a world too big and too impersonal!). He covers it with an unerring eye for detail and ear for tonal shifts in how we represented ourselves.

- Brian Morton, Sunday Herald

Trotter provides an original study of the influence on British literature (1927–39) of media that were new in the period between the wars… He provides an innovative, richly detailed historical snapshot.

- M. DelloBuono, Choice

Se alle

David Trotter’s brilliant study is a radical exploration of literature in its relations to technologies and material cultures between the wars. It offers inspired new ways of understanding the preoccupations and aspirations of a period, through models of connectivity and communication which will displace our now familiar maps of early twentieth-century texts and contexts. <i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> is surprising and illuminating at every turn.

- Laura Marcus, University of Oxford,

<i>Literature in the First Media Age</i> is a work of exhilarating virtuosity and great interpretative power. Elegantly conceived, original, inventive and generative, it will stand as an indispensable text in modernist studies.<br />

- Michael Levenson, University of Virginia,

The originality of the work shows itself in every chapter. We can be grateful to David Trotter for changing our understanding of a decisive epoch in cultural history.

- Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine,

The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to portray communication by telephone, television, radio, and sound cinema—and to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday modern life.New media and new materials gave writers a fresh opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how literature might be written. Today, Trotter observes, such material and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive. Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period between the World Wars. In defining what they achieved, this book creates a new literary canon of works distinguished formally and thematically by their alertness to the implications of new media and new materials.
Les mer
Communications technology is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. Some of the writers who first woke up to this fact lived and wrote in Britain between the World Wars. Here, David Trotter creates a new literary canon of works distinguished by their alertness to the implications of new media and materials.
Les mer
Literature in the First Media Age offers us a new way of approaching literary history… Governed not by politics or aesthetics, and populated by H. D. as well as [Thomas] Hancock, Clark Gable as well as Lawrence, Trotter’s new history takes the things with which we fill our lives—our books, our films and the technical and then social protocols dictating their uses as its focalizing issues. What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674073159
Publisert
2013-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Trotter, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Trotter is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.

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