Annette Kern-Stähler is Professor of English literature and Chair of Medieval Studies at the University of Bern. She has published on both modern and medieval literature, focusing especially on cultural contact, war and memory, the senses and emotions, gender, and the intersections of science and literature. Recent book publications include the co-edited volume Literature and the Senses (OUP, 2023). She has been a Christopher Isherwood Fellow at the Huntington Library, a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and has held further research residencies and fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, and Somerville College, Oxford.

• Introduction Part I. The Contribution of British Writers to the Intellectual and Moral Reorientation of Germany 1: British Writers and Cultural Institutions in Occupied Germany 2: Tried and Tested: Literature, the Politics of Re-Education, and the Imperial Mode 3: 'Interested in the Fate of the Country and Its People': Reasons for the Commitment of British Writers Part II. Occupied Germany as a 'Contact Zone' 4: Before and After Belsen: Imagining and Encountering the 'Barbarians' 5: The Barbaric and the Civilized: Colonial Legacies 6: 'Poor Little Germany': The Barbarians as Victims Part III. Germany's Past, Present, and Future: The Narrative Construction of Meaning 7: Moving between the Layers of Time: Stephen Spender's Germanies 8: The Eloquence of Ruins 9: Nuremberg as a Palimpsest Conclusion

Annette Kern-Stähler is Professor of English literature and Chair of Medieval Studies at the University of Bern. She has published on both modern and medieval literature, focusing especially on cultural contact, war and memory, the senses and emotions, gender, and the intersections of science and literature. Recent book publications include the co-edited volume Literature and the Senses (OUP, 2023). She has been a Christopher Isherwood Fellow at the Huntington Library, a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and has held further research residencies and fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, and Somerville College, Oxford.

• Introduction Part I. The Contribution of British Writers to the Intellectual and Moral Reorientation of Germany 1: British Writers and Cultural Institutions in Occupied Germany 2: Tried and Tested: Literature, the Politics of Re-Education, and the Imperial Mode 3: 'Interested in the Fate of the Country and Its People': Reasons for the Commitment of British Writers Part II. Occupied Germany as a 'Contact Zone' 4: Before and After Belsen: Imagining and Encountering the 'Barbarians' 5: The Barbaric and the Civilized: Colonial Legacies 6: 'Poor Little Germany': The Barbarians as Victims Part III. Germany's Past, Present, and Future: The Narrative Construction of Meaning 7: Moving between the Layers of Time: Stephen Spender's Germanies 8: The Eloquence of Ruins 9: Nuremberg as a Palimpsest Conclusion

Annette Kern-Stähler is Professor of English literature and Chair of Medieval Studies at the University of Bern. She has published on both modern and medieval literature, focusing especially on cultural contact, war and memory, the senses and emotions, gender, and the intersections of science and literature. Recent book publications include the co-edited volume Literature and the Senses (OUP, 2023). She has been a Christopher Isherwood Fellow at the Huntington Library, a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and has held further research residencies and fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, and Somerville College, Oxford.

• Introduction Part I. The Contribution of British Writers to the Intellectual and Moral Reorientation of Germany 1: British Writers and Cultural Institutions in Occupied Germany 2: Tried and Tested: Literature, the Politics of Re-Education, and the Imperial Mode 3: 'Interested in the Fate of the Country and Its People': Reasons for the Commitment of British Writers Part II. Occupied Germany as a 'Contact Zone' 4: Before and After Belsen: Imagining and Encountering the 'Barbarians' 5: The Barbaric and the Civilized: Colonial Legacies 6: 'Poor Little Germany': The Barbarians as Victims Part III. Germany's Past, Present, and Future: The Narrative Construction of Meaning 7: Moving between the Layers of Time: Stephen Spender's Germanies 8: The Eloquence of Ruins 9: Nuremberg as a Palimpsest Conclusion