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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950
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Artikel-Nr:
9780754656722
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.10.2009
Seiten:
244
Autor:
Petra Rau
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
234x156x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Petra Rau is Senior Lecturer in Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has published on modernism, travel writing, war literature and Anglo-German relations.
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.
Contents: Introduction; '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 Oueux 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; Select bibliography; Index.