Cover; cover_blank.pdf; British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Intellectual and Intelligence Contexts, 1930-1960; Writers and Spies; An Anatomy of the British Secret State; The Communist Threat in British Culture; Communists of the 'Intellectual Type'; Writers, the Secret State, and the Second World War; The Thirties Writers and the Cold War; Chapter 2 The Auden Circle; Day-Lewis Comes to Attention; Spender and the Soviet Embassy; Auden, Isherwood, and the Radical Networks of the 1930s
The Spanish Civil War and 'Comintern-Controlled' OrganisationsBreaking with the Left; Day-Lewis and Spender in the Second World War; Continued Surveillance; The Cambridge Spies and the Auden Circle; Spender and the Cultural Cold War; Chapter 3 Ewan MacColl, Joan Littlewood, and Theatre Workshop; Early Surveillance of MacColl: Rambling, Street Theatre, and Radio; MacColl, Littlewood, and the Second World War; MacColl and Littlewood in the Cold War; MI5's Surveillance of Theatre Workshop; A Communist Controlled Theatre Company?; Chapter 4 George Orwell and Arthur Koestler
Early Surveillance of OrwellTrodden on by a Very Dirty Boot?: Orwell in the Second World War; MI5's Surveillance of Koestler; Orwell and Koestler as Cold Warriors; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
