The Breakdown of a Consensus: British Writers and Anglo-German Relations 1900-1920

Humble, Malcolm

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“…21 Once hostilities began the propaganda proliferated, and many popular authors like John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton produced 'patriotic' reading material. 22 Chesterton's 1914 essay 'The Barbarism of Berlin' was a diatribe denouncing the Prussians as spiritual, moral and physical barbarians, with an 'itch for tyranny and interference . .…”

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Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Bayley

2019

Literature & History

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Historians have tended to focus on propaganda when assessing Edwardian attitudes towards Germans, but a shift of focus to fiction reveals a rather different picture. Whereas propaganda created the cliché of ‘the Hun’, fiction produced non- and even counter-stereotypical figures of Germans. An analysis of German governess characters in a selection of short stories, performances, novels, and cartoons indicates that the Edwardian image of Germans was not purely negative but ambivalent and multifarious. Imagined German governesses appeared as patriots and spies, pacifists and warmongers, spinsters and seducers, victims and evil-doers. A close look at characterisations by Saki [H. H. Munro], M. E. Francis [Margaret Blundell], Dorothy Richardson, D. H. Lawrence, Radclyffe Hall, Frank Hart and others reveals not only their variety but also their metaphorical use as responses to Germany’s aggressive militarism and avant-garde modernity. Each governess figure conveyed a positive, negative or ambivalent message about the potential impact of German militarism and modernity on England and Englishness. The aggregate image of German governesses, and by inference Germans, was therefore equivocal and demonstrates the mixed feelings of Edwardians toward their ‘cousin’ country.

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Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Bayley

2019

Literature & History

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Cultural mobilization and British responses to cultural transfer in total war: the Shakespeare tercentenary of 1916

Hendley

2012

First World War Studies

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The Breakdown of a Consensus: British Writers and Anglo-German Relations 1900-1920

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Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Fictional German governesses in Edwardian popular culture: English responses to German militarism and modernity

Cultural mobilization and British responses to cultural transfer in total war: the Shakespeare tercentenary of 1916

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