Umfang:
XX, 206 S.
ISBN:
9781139344357
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9781139842952
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9781139841764
Inhalt:
Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on recently declassified material from 1930 to 1960, this revealing study examines how leading figures in Britain's literary scene fell under MI5 and Special Branch surveillance, and the surprising extent to which writers became willing participants in the world of covert intelligence and propaganda. Chapters devoted to W. H. Auden and his associates, theatre pioneers Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood, George Orwell and others describe methods used by MI5 to gather information through and about the cultural world. The book also investigates how these covert agencies assessed the political influence of such writers, providing scholars and students of twentieth-century British literature with an unprecedented account of clandestine operations in popular culture
Inhalt:
Intellectual and intelligence contexts, 1930-1960 -- The Auden circle -- Ewan MacColl, Joan Littlewood, and Theatre Workshop -- George Orwell and Arthur Koestler
Anmerkung:
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Cover; cover_blank.pdf; British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Intellectual and Intelligence Contexts, 1930-1960; Writers and Spies; An Anatomy of the British Secret State; The Communist Threat in British Culture; Communists of the 'Intellectual Type'; Writers, the Secret State, and the Second World War; The Thirties Writers and the Cold War; Chapter 2 The Auden Circle; Day-Lewis Comes to Attention; Spender and the Soviet Embassy; Auden, Isherwood, and the Radical Networks of the 1930s
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The Spanish Civil War and 'Comintern-Controlled' OrganisationsBreaking with the Left; Day-Lewis and Spender in the Second World War; Continued Surveillance; The Cambridge Spies and the Auden Circle; Spender and the Cultural Cold War; Chapter 3 Ewan MacColl, Joan Littlewood, and Theatre Workshop; Early Surveillance of MacColl: Rambling, Street Theatre, and Radio; MacColl, Littlewood, and the Second World War; MacColl and Littlewood in the Cold War; MI5's Surveillance of Theatre Workshop; A Communist Controlled Theatre Company?; Chapter 4 George Orwell and Arthur Koestler
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Early Surveillance of OrwellTrodden on by a Very Dirty Boot?: Orwell in the Second World War; MI5's Surveillance of Koestler; Orwell and Koestler as Cold Warriors; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107030824
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107546486
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107030824
Weitere Ausg.:
Druckausg. Smith, James, 1981 - British writers and MI5 surveillancem Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013 ISBN 110703082X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107030824
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Auden, Wystan H. 1907-1973
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MacColl, Ewan 1915-1989
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Littlewood, Joan 1914-2002
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Orwell, George 1903-1950
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Koestler, Arthur 1905-1983
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Großbritannien
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Überwachung
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Geheimdienst
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139344357
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