Daniela Keller holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorIntroduction: Diffracting the German Other0.Dis/entangling Physics and FictionPart I: The Cold War: Divided Germany and Dualistic Thinking1. Mirrors and Contrasts in Len Deighton’s Funeral in Berlin (1964)2. Parallelism in John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963)3. Structuralist versus Diffractive ReadingPart II: The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Conciliatory Entanglements4. Lenses and Levels in Nicholas Mosley’s Hopeful Monsters (1990)5. Interferences in John David Morley’s The Book of Opposites (2010)6. Discursive DiffractionPart III: Brexit and the Strained Anglo-German Relation: Alluding to a Strong Dis/connection7. Allusion: A Diffractive Literary Device8. Allusion in Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse (2012)9. Changing Topologies in Ned Beauman’s The Teleportation Accident (2012)10. Anglo-German Entanglements in Anna Stothard’s The Museum of Cathy (2016)11. Beauman’s o and Stothard’s 0,0ConclusionAppendix 1: Quantum EntanglementAppendix 2: ComplementarityAppendix 3: The Double-Slit ExperimentBibliography

Daniela Keller’s study on Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction offers a much-needed exploration of an undervalued literary space. As a shining example of advanced literary scholarship, it presents this exploration in the shape of an ingenious masterstroke by drawing on optics as a provider of analytical concepts to shed light on the very characteristics of these literary ‘entanglements’. The result is a convincingly ‘diffractive’ (as opposed to deconstructive) reading of comprehensively chosen examples of English authors’ engagements with German motives since the Cold War until the political and psychological watershed of Brexit. Keller’s study is indispensable reading for anyone interested in this field of intercultural research.