Invasion literature is a literary genre most notable between 1871 and 1914 (beginning of the World War I). The start of this movement was in Britain with the publication of the short story "<em>The Battle of Dorking" </em>on 1871; it was a fictional account of an invasion of England by Germany. This started a literary craze for tales that stire up imaginations and anxieties about hypothetical invasions of foreing powers, this was a common sensation in the population of around the world during those days. By 1914 this genre had most than 400 boks published. Many of the authors were military officers or experts that thought that the nation would be saved in the case of an invasion if their particulary vision was adopted by the majority of the population.
Before the publication of <em>"The Battle of Dorking" </em>there was some invasion stories specailly after the development of the hot-air baloon by the French. The poems and plays centered on an army of hot-air ballons invading England. However this was attached to minor audience of readers it was not untill the Prussian victory over the French in the 1870-war with advance technologies such as breech-loading aritllery that the fear of a foreign invasion became more realistic to the whole population.
In the U.S the invasion literature reflected the fear of being invaded again by the British at the beggining but then moved forward to, with the start of the World War I, an invasion of the Germans. This stories create a feeling among the population that was well explode from the government to entered in the War.
The cause that the invasion literature still relevant today I think is that it reflects the fears and anxieties of each period and imagined a possible future, this is striking to anyone and that is the reason.
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