Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today's highly propagandized world. Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.

This work is comprised of narratives by the most distinguished nineteenth-century travellers. It is embellished with fine engravings on steel by Buttre, and illustrated by over forty wood engravings by Orr, with thirteen authentic maps by Schonberg. It is a facsimile reprint of the revised and enlarged edition published in two volumes by Moore, Wilstach, Keys in New York in 1860. Published in 1860, this is one of the very early encyclopedias on the history of travel and travel writings. Compiled by Bayard Taylor, popular travel writer and journalist in late nineteenth-century America, it covers all major travels and exploration by westerners to non-western countries from the beginning of nineteenth century, when 'the age of exploration and discovery' started. Including maps and illustrations, this Encyclopedia is an easy-to-use tool for scholars and students to research the history of travel and western encounters of other cultures.

Representing the public sphere : the new journalism and its historians / Mark Hampton Staging the public sphere : magazine dialogism and the prosthetics of authorship at the turn of the twentieth century / Ann Ardis Transatlantic print culture : the Anglo-American feminist press and emerging "modernities" / Lucy Delap and Maria DiCenzo Feminist things / Barbara Green Philanthropy and transatlantic print culture / Francesca Sawaya John O'London's weekly and the modern author / Patrick Collier "Women are news" : British women's magazines, 1919-1939 / Fiona Hackney Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle : (em)bedded in print / Margaret D. Stetz Journalism and modernism, continued : the case of W.T. Stead / Laurel Brake Journalism, modernity, and the globe-trotting girl reporter / Jean Marie Lutes The fine art of cheap print : turn-of-the-century American little magazines / Kirsten MacLeod The newspaper response to Tender buttons, and what it might mean / Leonard Diepeveen Modernist periodicals and pedagogy : an experiment in collaboration / Suzanne W. Churchill.

From the early to the mid twentieth century, state and appellate courts in the U.S. contentiously began to undermine the grounds on which books could be prosecuted for their salacious bodily appeals. At the same time, modernist and avant-garde writers were doing their part to call into question both art and its conditions of possibility. Obscenity case law's legitimation crisis and modernism's crisis of representation converged in the critical attention both paid to language's ability to exert an effective force in the world. In particular, court opinions, prose fiction, narrative poetry, little magazines, behaviorist essays, paperback book covers, and Civil Rights activist writing all were preoccupied with the printed word's capacity to "deprave," "corrupt," "excite," or offend contemporary readers in the early twentieth-century U.S. As the heterogeneity of this archive of obscene texts suggests, the period's arguments over the criminally libidinal appeals of writing encompassed more than just the relationships embodied between mute words and their presumably lewd readers. In the proscribed writings of Wyndham Lewis, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, and Robinson Jeffers, concepts of legal obscenity reliably provided the opportunities to reflect upon the deterministic, compulsive, and naturalistic effects of writing on the body. In turn, the struggle to account for the libidinal efficacy of books insinuated itself into all sorts of seemingly unrelated debates, such as those concerning the technocratic administration of mass consumption through behaviorist-informed advertising practices, shifts in cultural hierarchies between print and visual materials, and activist strategies for desegregating the Jim Crow South before the 1950s. As the history of their textual reception and legal proscription reveals, the "obscene" texts of Lewis, Caldwell, and Smith undermined, ostentatiously thematized, and inadvertently embodied the dispossessive ends to which salacious writing could be put, such that individual readers might become aware of the naturalistic social processes by which they were being turned into mass consumers, voyeurs, and racialized subjects.