03725nam 2200805Ia 450 991097265260332120251117064059.01-317-14302-71-315-57977-41-317-14301-91-282-29522-597866122952250-7546-9695-2(CKB)1000000000799457(EBL)476417(OCoLC)467178436(SSID)ssj0000295279(PQKBManifestationID)11225127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295279(PQKBWorkID)10313766(PQKB)10758648(Au-PeEL)EBL476417(CaPaEBR)ebr10331445(CaONFJC)MIL922679(Au-PeEL)EBL5293331(CaONFJC)MIL229522(MiAaPQ)EBC476417(MiAaPQ)EBC5293331(EXLCZ)99100000000079945720090415d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 /by Petra Rau1st ed.Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate20091 online resource (244 p.)Nineteenth Century SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7546-5672-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'A Sickening Suggestion of Common Guilt'German Renegades and English Heroes in Conrad's Fiction; 2 Forster's Accessible Foreignness Prussian Junkers versus 'German Cosmopolitans'; 3 Flirting with the Beastly HunImperial Anxiety and Modern Militarism in the Popular Fiction of Buchan, Le Queux and Saki; 4 Ford's 'Tricky German Fashion'Medical Modernity and Anglo-Saxon Pathology; 5 'Monster Men and Women'Woolf's Grotesque German Body and Lawrence's 'Bad' Modernity6 'The Soldiers of Modernism'The Lure of Fascist Corporeality in Travel Writing and Fiction7 'The Thinning of the Membrane Between the This and the That': Englishness and Espionage in Blitz Writing; Select Bibliography; IndexThis 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.Nineteenth Century SeriesEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, British, in literatureEnglish fictionGerman influencesModernism (Literature)Great BritainGermanyForeign public opinion, BritishGermanyIn literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.National characteristics, British, in literature.English fictionGerman influences.Modernism (Literature)820.9820.9/355820.935293109034820.9'352931'09034-dc22820.9355Rau Petra1097057MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972652603321English modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-19504486383UNINA