• Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present
• Places a strong emphasis on the value...

The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation 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, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and...

• Offers major re-interpretations of key Modernist works, including Ulysses, The...