Aviation in the literature and culture of interwar Britain. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael McCluskey, Luke Seaber.
• Editors: McCluskey, Michael; Seaber, Luke, 1979-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Airminded Modernism.- Part I: Observations.- Chapter 2: 'A Pinch of Inquisitive Pleasure': Wyndham Lewis, the Great War and Military Surveillance .- Chapter 3: 'From this new culture of the air we finally see': 'Groundmindedness' in the 1930s.- Chapter 4: Entering British Airspace: Aviation and Film.- Part II: Industry.- Chapter 5: Flying Blind: The Formation of Airmindedness from a Pilot's Perspective.- Chapter 6: 'Off the Ground and through the Looking-Glass': Airliners, Imagination and the Construction of the Modern Air Passenger.- Chapter 7: Flying Dangerously: Elizabeth Bowen's To the North.- Part III: Influencers.- Chapter 8: 'True Blue Heroines': The 1930s Aviatrix and Eccentric Colonial Femininity.- Chapter 9: 'A Solar Emperor': Robert Byron Flies East.- Chapter 10: 'The Fundamental Magic of Flying': Changing Perspectives in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's North to the Orient and Virginia Woolf's The Years and Between the Acts.- Part IV: Spectacle.- Chapter 11: Spectre and Spectacle: Mock Air Raids as Aerial Theatre in Interwar Britain.- Chapter 12: Airminded Nationalism: Great Britain and the Schneider Trophy Competition.- Part V: Potential.- Chapter 13: When the Wolves Were Flying: The Box of Delights and Flight in 1930s Children's Literature.- Chapter 14: 'The Camels Are Coming': W.E. Johns, Biggles, and T. E. Lawrence's Flight into the Air Force.- Chapter 15: 'Watch the Skies!': Guernica, Dresden and the Age of the Bomber in George Orwell and Rex Warner.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 820.9356; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Aeronautics in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030605551
• Related ISBNs: 9783030605544
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