Picturing England between the Wars

Sillars has a rare ability to read print conventionssuch as the layouts, typography, image reproduction technologies, bindings, formats, and other featuresthat orchestrate the relations among texts and images on the page. Whether pointing out the appearance of a modern font, such as that designed by Edward Johnston and familiarized to a broad public through its use in the signage of the London Underground, or a drawing whose tonal value or particular line quality suggest an earlier era of illustration, Sillars shows the reader how the graphical qualities work as cultural objects of production and reception.

Auteur
Stuart Sillars read English and Music at the University of Exeter and after working in a series of further and higher education, including the Open University and the faculty of English at Cambridge, he was appointed Professor of English at Bergen where he teaches across a range of topics and levels. His MA degree was concerned with music and poetry and this developed his interest in relations between the arts. His most recent volume reflects an earlier and continuing interest in the social, intellectual, and cultural forms of the years between the two world wars.

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Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.

Résumé
Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.

Contenu

• Introduction

• Prologue

• Part One: Mapping the Imagined Land

• 1: Some versions of Arcady

• 2: Searching for a Place

• 3: Modern Pilgrims

• 4: Moving towards Truths

• Part Two: Many Mansions

• 5: Housing for the People

• 6: Houses for Moderate means

• 7: Modernism

• Part Three: Seeing and the Reading Public

• 8: Book, Image, and Social Presence

• 9: Some uses of Imagery

• 10: Imaging the Classics

• 11: The Ruralist and the Premier

• Part Four: Weekly Communities

• 12: Magazines for All

• 13: Magazines for Women

• 14: The Practical Habit: Magazines for Men

• 15: Air Mindedness

• Coda: 'Such a crop . . . as never'

• Select Bibliography