English modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 / Petra Rau.
| Author/creator | Rau, Petra, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, |
| Description | x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | '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 Queux 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]225) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009015758 |
| ISBN | 9780754656722 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754656721 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754696957 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0754696952 (e-book) |