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Popular literature --- Popular literature. --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture

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The Conning of America examines for the first time from a literary perspective the propaganda writings produced in the United States during the period of World War I. This American propaganda literature was written in two distinct stages: the first stage was written by the pro-War establishment based on the East Coast of the United States before American entry into the conflict. It attempted to vilify Germany and her Allies while at the same time showing England, France, and Russia as the victims of a well-planned organized German plan for world domination-beginning with the invasion of neutral Belgium. The literature urged the United States to prepare for a German invasion of America and to be wary of German-Americans, who most likely were spies in the employ of the Imperial German government. The second stage of propaganda literature occurred when America declared war on the Central Powers in April 1917. While still using the blood thirsty militaristic Hun as a symbol of German inherent evil, the propaganda literature began to portray the Americans as the saviors of European culture. American boys were being sent to Europe on a spiritual mission to purify decadent European culture, while at the same time their sacrifice would rejuvenate and sanctify American values in the fire of the conflict in order for America to take her proper place in the new post-war order.

American literature --- Popular literature --- World War, 1914 - 1918 --- World War, 1914 -1918 --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Propaganda

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Crime in literature --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Literary form --- Murder in literature --- Popular literature --- Semiotics and literature --- History and criticism

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Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865

War and literature --- American literature --- Popular literature --- War stories, American --- War poetry, American --- War in literature. --- Literature and war --- Literature --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Southern States --- Literature and the war. --- In literature. --- War in literature --- History and criticism

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American fiction --- Crime in literature. --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English fiction --- Literature and society --- Popular literature --- Suspense fiction --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism.