LITERATURE IN THE FIRST MEDIA AGE

The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar lite rature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological m ediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to portray communication by telephone, television, radio, and sound cinema--and to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled up, too, with the look, ...[Read more]