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

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 inconsistenci...