Broadcasting Modernism

"Because early broadcasts were rarely recorded, their influence on literary modernism has been hard to document. Yet modernist authors embraced the emerging medium, creating texts that were to be heard but not read, incorporating the device into their stories, and using it to publicize their work. They saw in radio the same spirit of experimentation that animated modernism itself." The essays in Broadcasting Modernism argue that radio led to changes in textual and generic forms, providing a new perspective for modernist studies even as it reconfigures the landscape of the era itself.

Debra Rae Cohen, assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women’s Great War Fiction. Michael Coyle, professor of English at Colgate University, is the founding president of the Modernist Studies Association and the author of Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture. Jane Lewty has published on radio and the work of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound.