Explores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.
Explores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Megan Faragher is an Associate Professor of English at Wright State University's Lake Campus. She received her PhD in English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2012, where she specialized in twentieth-century English and Irish literature. She joined Wright State University Lake Campus in 2013 after completing a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at East Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching interests center on British literature between the world wars, and the intersection between technology, information, and culture.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: From the Era of the Crowd to the Psychographic Turn * 1: A Science So-Called: H.G. Wells's Reprisal of Academic Sociology * 2: Polling for Peace: Journalism and Activist Polling Between the Wars * 3: What the Listeners Want: Public Opinion on the Wireless * 4: The Gender of Public Opinion: Naomi Mitchison, Celia Fremlin, and the Women of Mass-Observation * 5: The Morass of Morale: The Ministry of Information in the Works of Cecil Day-Lewis and Elizabeth Bowen * Afterword: Psychography's Postwar Pivot
* Introduction: From the Era of the Crowd to the Psychographic Turn * 1: A Science So-Called: H.G. Wells's Reprisal of Academic Sociology * 2: Polling for Peace: Journalism and Activist Polling Between the Wars * 3: What the Listeners Want: Public Opinion on the Wireless * 4: The Gender of Public Opinion: Naomi Mitchison, Celia Fremlin, and the Women of Mass-Observation * 5: The Morass of Morale: The Ministry of Information in the Works of Cecil Day-Lewis and Elizabeth Bowen * Afterword: Psychography's Postwar Pivot
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