| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index. |
| Contents |
'A sickening suggestion of common guilt' : German renegades and English heroes in Conrad's fiction -- Forster's accessible foreignness : Prussian Junkers versus 'German cosmopolitans' -- Flirting with the beastly Hun : Imperial anxiety and modern militarism in the popular fiction of Buchan, Le Queux and Saki -- Ford's 'tricky German fashion' : medical modernity and Anglo-Saxon pathology -- 'Monster men and women' : Woolf's grotesque German body and Lawrence's bad modernity -- The 'soldiers of modernism' : The lure of fascist corporeality in travel writing and fiction -- 'The thinning of the membrane between the this and the that' : Englishness and espionage in Blitz writing. |
| Summary |
This is the first systematic analysis of the relationship between representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature, the construction of English identity and the negotiation of modernity. Major figures such as Conrad, Woolf and Ford are examined alongside popular or less-familiar writers such as Saki and Stevie Smith. Rau's book will be invaluable to scholars and will serve undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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Germany -- Foreign public opinion, British.
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English fiction -- German influences.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Germany -- In literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
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English fiction -- German influences.
(OCoLC)fst00910834
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
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National characteristics, British, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033382
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Public opinion, British. (OCoLC)fst01354095
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rau, Petra. English modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-1950. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754656722 (DLC) 2009015758 (OCoLC)318645887 |
| ISBN |
0754696952 (electronic bk.) |
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9780754696957 (electronic bk.) |
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