British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvBeatriz Lopez,James Smith,Guy Woodward

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This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international propaganda campaigns and throws new light on the global deployment of British propaganda and cultural diplomacy in colonial and post-colonial theatres such as Cyprus, India and Sierra Leone.Chapters re-evaluate the propaganda work of prominent writers including Arthur Koestler and Dylan Thomas in the light of new archival research, study how organisations including the BBC, British Council and Ministry of Information engaged with new media forms, analyse cultural representations of propaganda service and investigate how British literature and culture was deployed and projected as a form of soft power across the globe.Featuring contributions from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, visual culture, book history and radio history, this book brings together a constellation of established and emerging scholars to show the crucial role played in shaping and mediating the techniques and content of British information campaigns of the mid-twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått152 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350412170

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Beatriz Lopez completed a PhD on Muriel Spark and propaganda at DurhamUniversity, UK.James Smith is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He is theeditor of The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s and theauthor of British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960.Guy Woodward is Research Associate in the Department of English Studies atDurham University, UK. He is the author of Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second WorldWar.

Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual – Beatriz Lopez, James Smith and Guy Woodward1. Haw-Hawing Hitler: Radio Comedy as Propaganda – Debra Rae Cohen2. Radio Pages, Morale Reading and the Word War – Damien Keane 3. Dylan Thomas at the Microphone: The BBC’s Book of Verse and Imperial Cultural Propaganda – Daniel Ryan Morse 4. PEN, Refugee Writers and Propaganda – Katherine Cooper 5. Visual Storytelling in the Ministry of Information's Wartime Exhibitions – Harriet Atkinson6. Propaganda as Elegy in the Ministry of Information's Britain in Pictures Series – Megan Faragher 7. Colonial Insurgency, Propaganda and the British ‘soldier-aesthete’: Lawrence Durrell, Maurice Cardiff, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Freya Stark in the Cyprus Revolt – Maria Hadjiathanasiou 8. John Bankole Jones, London Line and the Central Office of Information in the Era of Cultural Propaganda – Scott Anthony 9. The British Council, Writers and their Work and English Literature as Cultural Diplomacy – James Smith 10. Lynette Roberts’s ‘Gods with Stainless Ears’ and the Poetics of Propaganda – Adam Piette 11. ‘Dialectical tight-rope acts of self-deception': Arthur Koestler’s Anti-Communist Propaganda – Annabel Williams 12. Psychological Warfare in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow – Kirk Robert Graham13. Dramatizing Secrecy and Propaganda: Sir David Hare in Conversation – Guy WoodwardSelect Bibliography