"This edited collection addresses an issue that has been relatively neglected: how radio participated in the development of modernism during the early 20th century. [The book] make[s] for an important advance in the historiography of broadcasting" -- European Journal of Communication "[An] excellent and wide-ranging collection. Broadcasting in the Modernist Era is essential reading." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The volume's strands of enquiry will be appreciated and enriched by scholars of inter-medial cultural history for years to come" -- Review of English Studies "This collection provides a look back at an important aspect of modernism: the implications of broadcast media, a subject also of interest in the contemporary digital age.Not surprisingly, the concerns of many of the modernists discussed-Eliot, Joyce, Yeats, Forster, Woolf, Orwell, et al.-parallel concerns that have arisen since the introduction of the World Wide Web. The variety of modernist responses, both reservations and enthusiasms, and their contemporary resonances make it clear that careful examinations, such as the ones gathered here, provide lessons by showing how previous generations and intellectual movements dealt with "new media" of their times.Summing Up: Recommended.

Upper-division undergraduates and above." -- CHOICE.