This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds tothe body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World WarI to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity."

An analysis of the resurgent cultural fascination with Nazism since 1989. 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 mediated and mythologised to the extent that it now often replaces a critical...