As probably a lot of people here know, the genre of "invasion literature" (centered mainly on "What if England is invaded by a continental power" ideas, but with offshoots around the world and continuing in different forms to the present) saw its height during the period 1870s-1914, taking off after the publication of The Battle of Dorking in 1871. In the case of Britain, this genre gradually came to focus on Germany as the main threat, significantly influencing the former's national and foreign policy and, arguably, aiding in the push to WWI.
My question is this: If Germany had somehow pulled off a victory in WWI (Schlieffen Plan works, Allies or Russia are slower to move, or whatever scenario you can think of) and ended up dominating Europe in fact as well as fiction, what would this have led to with "invasion literature," and its popularity & plots/themes?
A lot depends on how Europe would look in the aftermath of a German victory, or at least a situation where France and Russia are forced to terms in the first few months to a year, and Britain has no foothold on the Continent. Germany pulling off a Sealion-type operation in the 1910s feels even less plausible than in 1940, yet the possibility is there for a much larger military and naval presence on the North Sea coast (how big/likely, I don't know, having come across only the draft ideas in the Septemberprogramm, and the theoretical map from the "What-If" collection) and constant skirmishes over colonies in Africa, thus perhaps keeping fears of invasion at a fever pitch in Britain.
How might the literature built around these fears have fared or changed, in a defeated/tensely stalemated Britain and around the world?
My question is this: If Germany had somehow pulled off a victory in WWI (Schlieffen Plan works, Allies or Russia are slower to move, or whatever scenario you can think of) and ended up dominating Europe in fact as well as fiction, what would this have led to with "invasion literature," and its popularity & plots/themes?
A lot depends on how Europe would look in the aftermath of a German victory, or at least a situation where France and Russia are forced to terms in the first few months to a year, and Britain has no foothold on the Continent. Germany pulling off a Sealion-type operation in the 1910s feels even less plausible than in 1940, yet the possibility is there for a much larger military and naval presence on the North Sea coast (how big/likely, I don't know, having come across only the draft ideas in the Septemberprogramm, and the theoretical map from the "What-If" collection) and constant skirmishes over colonies in Africa, thus perhaps keeping fears of invasion at a fever pitch in Britain.
How might the literature built around these fears have fared or changed, in a defeated/tensely stalemated Britain and around the world?