Invasions

<i>Invasions </i>is an ambitious new and authoritative study of one of the defining cultural products of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. By the outbreak of war in 1914 invasion-scare fiction had profoundly changed British society becoming not just a vibrant part of popular culture but a reference point among military planners advertisers and politicians. This intersection between politics and culture between entertainment and war planning sets invasion-scare stories apart as one of the most versatile and interesting fictional products in modern British history. Building on recent work in both history and literature studies <i>Invasions</i> is the first study of invasion-scare fiction to examine both the form (that is fiction) and the function (the political argument) of the genre.