Titlebook: Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain; Michael McCluskey,Luke Seaber Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies Eastce, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Iran, as told through the newspaper articles and his travel books . (1931) and . (1933). These writings display an airborne variant of what Edward Said has described as the ‘consolidated vision’ of the Victorian and Edwardian imperial

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Spectre and Spectacle: Mock Air Raids as Aerial Theatre in Interwar Britaingenerate a sensationally modern image of technological sublimity through violent spectacles of aerial warfare, including the performance of mock air raids. This was amplified by a second, incidental kind of aerial theatre, performed as part of Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) exercises and air ra

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Airminded Nationalism: Great Britain and the Schneider Trophy CompetitionWinning races and setting speed records before some of the largest public crowds in interwar Britain encouraged technical development, showcased industrial prowess, marketed aeronautical exports, upheld national honor and engineering prestige and fueled airmindedness. The effort tested the temporary

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When the Wolves Were Flying: , and Flight in 1930s Children’s Literaturedominant accounts—both contemporary and subsequent—of interwar aviation and its attractions as profoundly linked to totalitarian power and violence, as this chapter argues through a close reading of John Masefield’s 1935 novel .. Exploring Masefield’s juxtaposition of sacred and modern forms of flig

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‘The Camels Are Coming’: W. E. Johns, Biggles, and T. E. Lawrence’s Flight into the Air Forceferred the heroic status previously reserved for the robes of an Arab prince onto the technocratic overalls of the aircraft engineer, Johns promoted mass air travel as the first editor of ., in which First World War flying ace, Captain James Bigglesworth was first introduced to the general public. T

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