Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature by Megan Faragher

Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature by Megan Faragher

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Explores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.

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Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature by Megan Faragher

Explores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.
Megan Faragher is an Associate Professor of English at Wright State University's Lake Campus. She received her PhD in English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2012, where she specialized in twentieth-century English and Irish literature. She joined Wright State University Lake Campus in 2013 after completing a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at East Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching interests center on British literature between the world wars, and the intersection between technology, information, and culture.
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ISBN 13 9780192898975
ISBN 10 0192898973
Title Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature
Author Megan Faragher
Series Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2021-09-09
Number of pages 256
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