The era of literary Modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe that challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a new global audience for their work. Historicizing these developments and drawing on new archival research - including from the BBC archives and other important collections - Broadcasting in the Modernist Era explores the ways in which canonical Modernist writers engaged with the new media of Radio and Television. Beginning with an overview of the development of broadcasting technologies in inter-war Europe, the book goes on to consider the radio writing and broadcasts of such writers as Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre and Gertrude Stein. With chapters written by leading international scholars, the book's archive-based approach opens up new avenues for our understanding of Modernist literature in the mass-media age.
