Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030605558
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9783030605551
  
• Author: Michael Mccluskey

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Airminded Modernism

Part I. Observations

2. ‘A Pinch of Inquisitive Pleasure’: Wyndham Lewis, the Great War and Military Surveillance

3. ‘From This New Culture of the Air We Finally See’: ‘Groundmindedness’ in the 1930s

4. Entering British Airspace: Aviation and Film

Part II. Industry

5. Flying Blind: The Formation of Airmindedness from a Pilot’s Perspective

6. ‘Off the Ground and Through the Looking-Glass’: Airliners, Imagination and the Construction of the Modern Air Passenger

7. Flying Dangerously: Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North

Part III. Influencers

8. ‘True Blue Heroines’: The 1930s Aviatrix and Eccentric Colonial Femininity

9. ‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East

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

11. Spectre and Spectacle: Mock Air Raids as Aerial Theatre in Interwar Britain

12. Airminded Nationalism: Great Britain and the Schneider Trophy Competition

Part V. Potential

13. When the Wolves Were Flying: The Box of Delights and Flight in 1930s Children’s Literature

14. ‘The Camels Are Coming’: W. E. Johns, Biggles, and T. E. Lawrence’s Flight into the Air Force

15. ‘Watch the Skies!’: Guernica, Dresden and the Age of the Bomb

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