Description
This book has everything. It is scrupulously researched, lucidly and appealingly written, interdisciplinary in the most rigorous sense, thickly historicized, and forcefully argued. -- Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa The thesis of Modernism, Media, and Propaganda is original and Mark Wollaeger's readings in support of it are thorough, ingenious, and illuminating. This is an original, persuasive, and authoritative study. -- Michael North, University of California, Los Angeles
About the Author
Mark Wollaeger is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of "Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism", the editor of "James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook", and coeditor of "Joyce and the Subject of History".
Reviews
"Highly recommended... [This] book is well planned, carefully constructed, and assiduously substantiated."--D. G. Izzo, Choice "Wollaeger gives [the debate about art's relationship to propaganda] new purchase by stressing the emergence of modern propaganda ... and by showing how the last century's propaganda outlets served as both a testing ground and a charger, a model, and a spur, for modernist innovation... Modernism can help us resist propaganda today, Wollaeger suggests smartly, not because it has always kept its distance but because, from the beginning, it absorbed propaganda's tricks."--Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Modernism/Modernity "Mark Wollaeger's sophisticated new book adds to the recent reshaping of our understanding of modernist-period media culture... While one would expect such tours de force from Wollaeger, who is known for his work on Conrad and Joyce, it is his chapter on Ford Madox Ford that proves to be the volume's intellectual center."--Debra Rae Cohen, Clio "While many critical studies of British literary modernism promise to reveal new ways to contextualize modernism, few deliver with such accomplished originality as Mark Wollaeger's Modernism, Media, and Propaganda... Wollaeger's book is a model of exemplary scholarship that ... aptly speaks to our historical moment."--Lissa Schneider, James Joyce Literary Supplement "Mark Wollaeger's Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 is written in an approachable style with an engaging and often amusing personal voice... This is a book in which the historical contextualising so in trend at the present time is allowed to sit comfortably and rewardingly beside more 'traditional' close readings of canonical works."--Ayako Yoshino, Studies in English Literature--English Literary Society of Japan "A carefully researched monograph, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda will likely appeal to those interested in historicist and close textual analyses, and perhaps less to those seeking more theoretical treatments of modernist prose and film."--David Tomkins, European Legacy "Modernism, Media, and Propaganda is a rich and nuanced study of how modernism and propaganda were formed symbiotically as much as defined by difference."--Elizabeth F. Evans, Woolf Studies Annual
Book Information
ISBN 9780691138459
Author Mark Wollaeger
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 539g