Petra Rau
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Rau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra |
| FAMILY NAME | Rau |
| SIGNATURE | RAU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6425-1253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Europe in British Literature and Culture
How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages? This volume offers nuanced answers to this question. From the High Renaissance to haute cuisine, from the Republic of Letters to the European Union, from the Black Death to Brexit -- the reader gains insights into the main geographical zones of influence, shared intellectual movements, indicative modes of cultural transfer and more recent conflicts that…
The Future Imperfect
In ‘The Future Imperfect’ Petra Rau reflects on the meaning of her mother’s narrowly averted attempt to discard the family photo albums, and on the function of the photo album as a retroactive personal narrative. The difficulty of reading family photographs that precede one’s own experience and recollection is the subject of the second part, an excerpt from the as yet unpublished family memoir Hinterland
English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950
This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950 contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simp…
Germans as minorities during the First World War
Germans as minorities during the First World War: a global comparative perspective." Immigrants & Minorities, 34(3), pp. 322–323
Trials of Modernism
In the ever growing list of publications that have ‘modernism and’ in the title, it is a delight to see such a delicious inversion: ‘modernism’ relegated to the end of the phrase and ‘lesbian scand
Our Nazis
"Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both m…
Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature
Still Serving in Silence
Steve Estes, Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, $29.95 hardback. In 1993 the recently elected President Clinton settled for a very uneasy po
Definitely Maybe
The Poetics of Pathology
Freud's self-conscious reflections on the ‘Novelle’ in his first major work, Studien über Hysterie, have sometimes been interpreted as rhetorical remarks in which his writerly ambitions came to the surface. This article argues that the case histories of hysteria and the genre of the ‘Novelle’ (particularly the psychopathic or psychographic nineteenth-century ‘Novelle’) share a poetics of pathology. Indeed their common features (dependence on symb…
Tautology or Oxymoron? Feminist 'Women's Fiction
Germanists and Their Discontents
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Germanists and Their Discontents
Tautology or Oxymoron? Feminist 'Women's Fiction
Definitely Maybe
The Poetics of Pathology
Freud's self-conscious reflections on the ‘Novelle’ in his first major work, Studien über Hysterie, have sometimes been interpreted as rhetorical remarks in which his writerly ambitions came to the surface. This article argues that the case histories of hysteria and the genre of the ‘Novelle’ (particularly the psychopathic or psychographic nineteenth-century ‘Novelle’) share a poetics of pathology. Indeed their common features (dependence on symb…
Still Serving in Silence
Steve Estes, Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out, University of North Carolina Press, 2007, $29.95 hardback. In 1993 the recently elected President Clinton settled for a very uneasy po
Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature
Our Nazis
"Why has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers the first analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism. Petra Rau brings this material into dialogue with earlier responses to fascism and demonstrates how, paradoxically, Nazism has been both m…
Trials of Modernism
In the ever growing list of publications that have ‘modernism and’ in the title, it is a delight to see such a delicious inversion: ‘modernism’ relegated to the end of the phrase and ‘lesbian scand
English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950
This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950 contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simp…
Germans as minorities during the First World War
Germans as minorities during the First World War: a global comparative perspective." Immigrants & Minorities, 34(3), pp. 322–323
The Future Imperfect
In ‘The Future Imperfect’ Petra Rau reflects on the meaning of her mother’s narrowly averted attempt to discard the family photo albums, and on the function of the photo album as a retroactive personal narrative. The difficulty of reading family photographs that precede one’s own experience and recollection is the subject of the second part, an excerpt from the as yet unpublished family memoir Hinterland
Europe in British Literature and Culture
How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages? This volume offers nuanced answers to this question. From the High Renaissance to haute cuisine, from the Republic of Letters to the European Union, from the Black Death to Brexit -- the reader gains insights into the main geographical zones of influence, shared intellectual movements, indicative modes of cultural transfer and more recent conflicts that…
Art (7 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)