Invasion literature
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Invasion literature (or the invasion novel) was a historical literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War (1914). The genre first became recognizable starting in Britain in 1871 with the short story The Battle of Dorking, a fictional account of an invasion of England by Germany. The Battle of Dorking was so popular it started a literary craze for stories that aroused imaginations and anxieties about hypothetical invasions by foreign powers, and by 1914 the genre had amassed a corpus of over 400 books, many best-sellers, and a world-wide audience. The genre was extremely influential in Britain in shaping politics, national policies and popular perceptions in the years leading up to the First World War, and remains a part of popular culture to this day.
See also
- Alien invasion
- Alternate history
- British Empire in fiction
- World War III in popular culture
- Book of Invasions
- Not This August
- Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)
- Invasion U.S.A. (1985 film)
- Red Dawn
- Axis victory in World War II
- Amerika (TV miniseries)