Empire, Modernity, and the Invasion Novel: Invading Modernism

Empire, Modernity, and the Invasion Novel: Invading Modernism is an examination of Late-Victorian and Edwardian popular literature, and the invasion novel genre in particular.

Written at the height of British Imperialism, these texts mediated the cultural confusion and anxiety about the empire in radical and experimental ways. A few decades later, the modernists would attempt to define themselves in opposition to the authors of these books, dismissing them as commercial purveyors of lowbrow ...