Overview
- Brings together new research highlighting interest in modernity, travel, and mobility
- Provides examples of the influence of aviation on writers and artists
- Investigates the concept of ‘airmindedness’ from a literary, historical, and cultural perspective
Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Influencers
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael McCluskey is Lecturer in the CAS Writing Program at Boston University, USA. He was previously Lecturer in English at the University of York, UK, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, UK, and a Research Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard, USA. He is working on a monograph on 1930s British documentary.
Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture on the Undergraduate Preparatory Certificate for the Humanities at University College London, UK. He is author of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Influence on George Orwell: A Surprising Irony (2012) and Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). He has published various articles and chapters on British literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain
Editors: Michael McCluskey, Luke Seaber
Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60554-4Published: 02 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60557-5Published: 03 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60555-1Published: 01 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4838
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 350
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, British Culture