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Invasions: Fears and Fantasies of Imagined Wars in Britain, 1871-1918

Invasions: Fears and Fantasies of Imagined Wars in Britain, 1871-1918

Melby, Christian K.

Hardcover

Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismOther Wars

ISBN10: 1526168855
ISBN13: 9781526168856
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Invasions is an ambitious, new and authoritative study of one of the defining cultural products of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. By the outbreak of war in 1914 invasion-scare fiction had profoundly changed British society, becoming not just a vibrant part of popular culture, but a reference point among military planners, advertisers, and politicians. This intersection between politics and culture, between entertainment and war planning, sets invasion-scare stories apart as one of the most versatile and interesting fictional products in modern British history. Building on recent work in both history and literature studies, Invasions is the first study of invasion-scare fiction to examine both the form (that is, fiction) and the function (the political argument) of the genre.

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