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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations
of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950
contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau
examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from
suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the
aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious
inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simple
response to political change but the result of an anxious
negotiation of modernity in which specific aspects of Englishness
were projected onto representations of Germans and Germany in
English literature and culture. While this incisive argument
clarifies and deepens our understanding of cultural and national
politics in the first half of the twentieth century, it also
complicates current debates surrounding race and 'otherness' in
cultural studies. Authors discussed include major figures such as
Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster and Bowen, as well as
popular or less familiar writers such as Saki, Graham Greene, and
Stevie Smith. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, Rau's
study will not only be an important book for scholars but will
serve as a valuable guide to undergraduates working in modernism,
literary history, and European cultural relations.
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