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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.
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.
This is an analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with
Nazism since 1989. Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged
after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of
commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this
study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and
literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and
Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier
responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism
has been both mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now
often replaces a critical engagement with actual, violent history.
In 5 thematic chapters on Nazi Noir, Men in Uniform, Vile Bodies,
The Good German and Meta-Cinematic Farce, Rau provides close
analysis of contemporary novels such as Jason Lutes' graphic novel
series Berlin, historical crime fiction by Philip Kerr and others,
Robert Harris' Fatherland, Ian McEwan's Black Dogs and Justin
Cartwright's The Song Before It Is Sung; films such as Bryan
Singer's Valkyrie and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards; art
installations including Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,
and Fucking Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman; and Piotr Uklanski's
photo frieze, Untitled (The Nazis). Features: broad
interdisciplinary approach which includes literature, film, TV and
art; wide coverage of popular forms and High Art; and comparison
with earlier material about fascism which reaches back to the
1930s.
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