Monographs

John Ramsden (2006), Don't Mention the War - The British and the Germans since 1890, London, Little, Brown While this book covers attitudes towards Germany and the Germans from 1890 through the 20C it has a chapter that focuses on the period prior to the First World War that discusses the impact on Invasion and Spy Literature upon public opinion and upon official policy. The Times decided in 1891 that 'Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy' - the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and our ...

British images of Germany; Admiration, antagonism & ambivalence, 1860-1914, by Richard Sculley (2012) Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914 is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany and the Germans in the key period before the First World War. Representing a recent about-face in scholarly appreciations of Anglo-German relations, Richard Scully reassesses the assumption that the relationship in the lead up to 1914 was increasingly fraught and reveals a more complex picture: that a longstanding sense of kinship felt by Britons for Germany and the Germans persisted right up to the outbreak of ...

Anticipations : Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995. This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the ...

David Trotter (1993) The English Novel in History 1895 - 1920, London, Routledge While covering a much wider spectrum than just invasion-scare fiction Trotter's book provides an interesting context of literature and society within which the invasion-scare/future war genre sits. He especially covers the growth of spy fiction in the period 1900-1914. Written specifically for students, David Trotter's The English Novel History 1895—1920 provides the first detailed and fully comprehensive analysis of early twentieth-century English fiction. Trotter examines the whole spectrum of fiction, from the innovations of Joyce's Ulysses through to mass-market genres such as detective stories and spy-thrillers. He ...