English modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-1950
By: by Petra Rau.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754656722; 9780754696957
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, British, in literature; English fiction -- German influences; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Germany -- Foreign public opinion, British; Germany -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'A sickening suggestion of common guilt': German renegades and English heroes in Conrad's fiction; title: Forster's accessible foreignness: Prussian Junkers versus 'German cosmopolitans'; title: Flirting with the beastly Hun: Imperial anxiety and modern militarism in the popular fiction of Buchan, Le Queux and Saki; title: Ford's 'tricky German fashion': medical modernity and Anglo-Saxon pathology; title: 'Monster men and women': Woolf's grotesque German body and Lawrence's bad modernity; title: The 'soldiers of modernism': The lure of fascist corporeality in travel writing and fiction; title: 'The thinning of the membrane between the this and the that': Englishness and espionage in Blitz writing.