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America Under Fire: Imagined Invasions of the United States during World War I

America Under Fire: Imagined Invasions of the United States during World War I AbstractWhen the war started in Europe in 1914, the United States military was desperately undermanned and underequipped. Prior to the country’s entry into the conflict, there was a pervading fear of a German invasion of the United States. The paranoia was further fed by what is now called “invasion literature.” Between 1914 and 1917, dozens of works appeared that raised the spectre of a German invasion. In these long-forgotten novels, millions of German soldiers are storming the beaches of the Atlantic coast and capturing New York, Boston, and Washington. This paper examines invasion literature and brings to light such examples of the genre as John Bernard Walker’s America Fallen! (1915), Cleveland Moffett’s The Conquest of America (1916), and Thomas Dixon’s The Fall of a Nation (1916). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Language and Cultural Education de Gruyter

America Under Fire: Imagined Invasions of the United States during World War I

Journal of Language and Cultural Education , Volume 10 (2): 7 – Jul 1, 2022

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2022 Jozef Pecina, published by Sciendo
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1339-4584
DOI
10.2478/jolace-2022-0010
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Abstract

AbstractWhen the war started in Europe in 1914, the United States military was desperately undermanned and underequipped. Prior to the country’s entry into the conflict, there was a pervading fear of a German invasion of the United States. The paranoia was further fed by what is now called “invasion literature.” Between 1914 and 1917, dozens of works appeared that raised the spectre of a German invasion. In these long-forgotten novels, millions of German soldiers are storming the beaches of the Atlantic coast and capturing New York, Boston, and Washington. This paper examines invasion literature and brings to light such examples of the genre as John Bernard Walker’s America Fallen! (1915), Cleveland Moffett’s The Conquest of America (1916), and Thomas Dixon’s The Fall of a Nation (1916).

Journal

Journal of Language and Cultural Educationde Gruyter

Published: Jul 1, 2022

Keywords: World War I; invasion fiction; preparedness; New York; Thomas Dixon

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