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Dr Guy Woodward's Outputs (22)

'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual' (2024)
Book Chapter
Smith, J., Lopez, B., & Woodward, G. (2024). 'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual'. In J. Smith, B. Lopez, & G. Woodward (Eds.), British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond. Bloomsbury

British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond (2023)
Book
Lopez, B., Smith, J., & Woodward, G. (Eds.). (in press). British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond. Bloomsbury

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War. It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international... Read More about British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond.

‘Conducting his own Campaigns’: Evelyn Waugh and Propaganda (2021)
Journal Article
Woodward, G. (2022). ‘Conducting his own Campaigns’: Evelyn Waugh and Propaganda. The Review of English Studies, 73(308), 144-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab057

This essay examines Evelyn Waugh as practitioner and critic in the field of wartime propaganda. In 1941, Waugh produced a fictitious account of a British Commando raid on German territory in North Africa for publication in Britain and the United Stat... Read More about ‘Conducting his own Campaigns’: Evelyn Waugh and Propaganda.

‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East (2020)
Book Chapter
Woodward, G. (2020). ‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East. In M. McCluskey, & L. Seaber (Eds.), Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (179-199). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1_9

In 1929 Robert Byron flew to India to report on the new Indian Air Mail service for Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express. This chapter traces Byron’s journey via France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Iran, as told through... Read More about ‘A Solar Emperor’: Robert Byron Flies East.

‘These people know what they're fighting for’: Denis Johnston and the Partisans (2018)
Journal Article
Woodward, G. (2018). ‘These people know what they're fighting for’: Denis Johnston and the Partisans. Irish University Review, 48(2), 331-347. https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2018.0358

In March 1944 the dramatist and BBC radio correspondent Denis Johnston travelled to the Croatian island of Vis, to record spoken and sung contributions by Yugoslav Partisans and British Royal Air Force officers stationed there. Examining Johnston's w... Read More about ‘These people know what they're fighting for’: Denis Johnston and the Partisans.

Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916 (2017)
Journal Article
Woodward, G. (2017). Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916. Literature and History, 26(2), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197317724666

In October 1914, the English writer and publisher Douglas Goldring was invalided out of the British Army. By 1916, he had become a conscientious objector and moved to Ireland, where he lived for the next two years, witnessing the aftermath of the Eas... Read More about Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916.

Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War (2015)
Book
Woodward, G. (2015). Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198716853.001.0001

This book explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged the entrenched political and soc... Read More about Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War.