Literary Treason
Authors on Trial in the Wake of World War II
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2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350406919 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350406919 (ISBN)
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Focusing on issues of treason and freedom of expression in the wake of World War II, this open access book tells the fascinating story of how prominent authors and intellectuals found themselves singled out by national courts for the crime of expressing an opinion, either in print or over the radio.
Can you commit treason by “mere words”? “Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?” Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the fascinating story of how prominent authors and intellectuals found themselves singled out by national courts in the wake of World War II, for the crime of expressing opinions, both in print or over the radio.
Rigorously researched and engagingly written, it examines cases of authors such as Ezra Pound, P.G. Wodehouse and Robert Brasillach, who were suspected or tried for treason in the wake of World War II. Bringing to light never-before-seen trial transcripts alongside a wealth of rich archival material, it considers how writing and speech was considered treasonous by bureaucracies and courts in the UK, US, France, Ireland, Norway and Romania. It also touches on issues such as the political responsibility of authors, the position of national and international author’s organizations, and emerging literary theories, including how the New Critics came to defend Pound’s poetry in the late 1940s.
Six engrossing chapters provide a forensic examination of how “mere words” were cast as treason and explore what writing was deemed “acceptable” in the postwar period.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Gothenburg.
Can you commit treason by “mere words”? “Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?” Are there limits to free expression? Grappling with these questions, this open access book tells the fascinating story of how prominent authors and intellectuals found themselves singled out by national courts in the wake of World War II, for the crime of expressing opinions, both in print or over the radio.
Rigorously researched and engagingly written, it examines cases of authors such as Ezra Pound, P.G. Wodehouse and Robert Brasillach, who were suspected or tried for treason in the wake of World War II. Bringing to light never-before-seen trial transcripts alongside a wealth of rich archival material, it considers how writing and speech was considered treasonous by bureaucracies and courts in the UK, US, France, Ireland, Norway and Romania. It also touches on issues such as the political responsibility of authors, the position of national and international author’s organizations, and emerging literary theories, including how the New Critics came to defend Pound’s poetry in the late 1940s.
Six engrossing chapters provide a forensic examination of how “mere words” were cast as treason and explore what writing was deemed “acceptable” in the postwar period.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Gothenburg.
Marius Hentea is Professor of Modern Anglophone Literature at the University of Poitiers, France.
Introduction
1. No Laughing Matter: The People’s War, Featuring Haw-Haw and Wooster
2. American Bughouse: Ezra Pound and the Strange Fruits of Treason
3. A “Handful” of Misérables: Institutions and Trials of the French Postwar Purge
4. Knut Hamsun’s Outworn Paths
5. Eastern Frontiers and People’s Justice: The Literary Purge in Romania
6. The Moral Trials of Neutrality: Francis Stuart and the Cave of Irish Darkness
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 38 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350406919 / 9781350406919 |
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