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First known date:
2011...
vol.
78
no.
4
Winter
2011
of
ELH: English Literary History
est. 1934
ELH
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The Creativity of War Planners : Armed Forces Professionals and the Pre-1914 British Invasion-Scare Genre,
single work
criticism
'This essay elucidates fundamental aspects of pre-1914 British invasion narratives. Under investigation are examples of the genre written by armed forces professionals who endeavored to stimulate support for increased military and/or naval expenditures as well as to make their cases for specific approaches to warfare. The essay has several aims: to sketch the debates in which such fictional texts were designed to intervene; to identify the salient characteristics of this literary form (ten motifs are distilled from more than one hundred texts); and to assess how the prognostications of these narratives compare with the battlefield reality of World War One.' (Author's abstract)
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