Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 158 pages Weaving together the history of the BBC and developments in ethical philosophy, this book shows how, in their involvement with the BBC as well as their comments on radio, several writers, including H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot and members of the Bloomsbury Group, worked to shape the ethical contours of literary modernism itself. |
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