Ebook: British writers and MI5 surveillance, 1930-1960
Author: Great Britain. MI5, Smith James
- Tags: English literature, English literature--20th century--History and criticism, Espionage British, Espionage British--History--20th century, Intelligence service in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English Irish Scottish Welsh, Politics and literature, Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century, Right and left (Political science) in literature, Criticism interpretation etc., History, Electronic books, Great Britain. -- MI5 -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain. -- MI5, Engl
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: New York;Great Britain
- Language: English
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Preface -- 1. Intellectual and intelligence contexts, 1930-60 -- 2. The Auden circle -- 3. Ewan MacColl, Joan Littlewood, and Theatre Workshop -- 4. Arthur Koestler and George Orwell -- Epilogue -- Notes.;"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 an unprecedented account of clandestine operations in popular culture"--;"The book explores records that MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, maintained on influential left-wing writers from 1930 to 1960"--
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