A Journey Through Invasion Narratives: 30 Books
Thirty Tales of Conquest, Resistance, Future War, and Imperial AnxietyBy Pierre Loti, Judith Gautier, Erckmann-Chatrian, Margaret Ellen James, bárÃ3 MiklÃ3s JÃ3sika, Reginald Horsley, Robert Leighton, P. G. Wodehouse, W. H. Withrow, J. M. Kennedy, William Le Queux, Marguerite-Yerta Méléra, Gabrielle Yerta, Sister Marie Antoine, Cecil Torr, Robert Sellar, Randall Garrett, Charles D. Melson, Montgomery B. Gibbs, Jacob Abbott, Mary Platt Parmele, Donat Henchy O'Brien, E. Berkley, William McKay, Daniel E. Hungerford, Charles J. Murphy, Edward Foord, Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich, T. W. Rolleston, Edwin George Rundle
Length220h 35m
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A Journey Through Invasion Narratives: 30 Books surveys a capacious and compelling literary mode: the imagining, reporting, and mythologizing of incursions across borders. Ranging from historical romance and imperial adventure to satire, speculative fiction, military alarm, travel writing, and popular suspense, the volume reveals invasion as both event and metaphor. Its juxtaposition of dramatic campaigns, threatened homelands, clandestine plots, and encounters between cultures makes visible the genre's shifting emotional registers—from patriotic anxiety to comic deflation and critical reflection. The collection gathers writers associated with French, British, Hungarian, Russian, North American, and wider European traditions, whose careers span nineteenth-century historical fiction, colonial-era popular literature, journalism, children's history, and twentieth-century fantasy. Such breadth situates invasion narratives within the formative pressures of nationalism, empire, modernization, and mass readership. The contributors' varied national and generic positions prevent the theme from becoming a single story of conquest: instead, they illuminate competing ideas of defense, foreignness, sovereignty, memory, and power. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich means of tracing how literary forms respond to collective danger and political imagination. Reading across its thirty books invites comparison between styles, periods, and cultural assumptions, while fostering a sustained dialogue about the enduring narratives through which societies envision invasion.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length220 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797
2The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797
3INTRODUCTION.
4THURSDAY. THE SECOND DAY.
5FRIDAY. THE THIRD DAY.
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6Footnote
7The Invasion of France in 1814
8CHAPTER I (pt. 1)
9CHAPTER I (pt. 2)
10CHAPTER I (pt. 3)
11Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
12PREFACE.
13CHAPTER IV.
14CHAPTER IX.
15CHAPTER XIII.
16CHAPTER XIX.
17The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland
18The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263)
19CHAPTER I. THE WITCH OF BUTE.
20CHAPTER VII. THE ARROW OF SUMMONS.
21CHAPTER XIII. THE "WHITE LADY" OF THE MOUNTAIN.
22CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION TO THE ISLAND KINGS.
23CHAPTER XXIII. THE INVASION OF BUTE.
24CHAPTER XXVII. THE BATTLE OF LARGS.
25CHAPTER XXXI. THE LAST DREAD FIGHT.
26The Welding of the Race
27INTRODUCTION
28THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH (“449”).
29THE MISSION OF AUGUSTINE (597).
30ETHELBERT’S DOOMS (circa 600).
31POPE GREGORY’S LETTER TO AUGUSTINE ON THE ORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH (601).
32AUGUSTINE’S ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE ROMAN AND THE CELTIC CHURCHES (603).
33PAULINUS AND EDWIN (625).
34EDWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA HOLDS A CONFERENCE, AT WHICH IT IS AGREED TO DESTROY THE IDOLS AND EMBRACE CHRISTIANITY (627).
35THE CHARACTER OF BISHOP AIDAN (635).
36OSWIN OF NORTHUMBRIA AND AIDAN (642).
37THE SYNOD OF WHITBY (664).
38ABBOT BENEDICT BISCOP’S ZEAL FOR RELIGIOUS ART (664 ONWARDS).
39THE SYNOD OF HERTFORD (673).
40THEODORE AND WILFRID (678).
41THE STORY OF CÆDMON (680).
42WILFRID CONVERTS THE SOUTH SAXONS (681).
43ST. CUTHBERT: (1) AS ABBOT, (2) AS ANCHORITE (DIED A.D. 687).
44THE DOOMS OF INE (BETWEEN 688 AND 705).
45CEOLFRID, ABBOT OF JARROW (DIED 716).
46A RIDDLE OF CYNEWULF (BORN BETWEEN 720 AND 730).
47POPE GREGORY II. COMMENDS BONIFACE (December 1, 722).
48THE STATE OF ENGLAND IN 731.
49BEDE’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF, HIS HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES AND METHODS (731).
50THE FAITHFUL THEGNS (786).
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