4: The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz’s Auf zwei Planeten

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Writers
6. 1: Anglo-German Conflict in Popular Fiction, 1870–1914 43
7. 2: Perversion and Pestilence: D. H. Lawrence and the Germans 101
8. 3: “Und muß ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?”: Carl Sternheim’s Opposition to the First World War 117
9. 4: The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz’s Auf zwei Planeten 129
10. Thinkers
11. 5: Nietzsche as Hate-Figure in Britain’s Great War: “The Execrable Neech” 147
12. 6: Darwinism and National Identity, 1870–1918 167
13. 7: Bernhardi and “The Ideas of 1914” 183
14. Academics
15. 8: Peacemaker and Warmonger: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer 215
16. 9: “In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer”: The German Celtic Scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War 231
17. 10: Austrian (and Some German) Scholars of English and the First World War 245
18. Works Cited 281
19. Contributors 315
20. Index 317