English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950

English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2009

244

Dura

Inglês

9780754656722

15 a 20 dias

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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.