Franco-British cultural exchanges, 1880-1940
Subtitle: channel packets
By: edited by Andrew Radford and Victoria Reid
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230283947
Subjects: English literature; Appreciation; English and French; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Comparative literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; French and English; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the "Channel Packet" and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between "high" and popular art forms"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Channel Vision; A. Radford & V. Reid Sea Change: English Responses to French Poetry between Decadence and Modernism; J. HigginsEntente asyme;trique? Franco-British Literary Exchanges in 1908; R. Hibbitt Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe; J. Barnes & H. Lee Transposing Wilde's Salome;: The French Operas by Strauss and Mariotte; E. EellsValery Larbaud, Thomas Hardy and The Dynasts, with two letters from Larbaud to Hardy; D. RoeExploring English Realist Fiction: Andre; Gide and his Correspondents; P. PollardAlain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, the Nouvelle Revue Française and the English Adventure Novel; D. Steel Marcel Schwob and Robert Louis Stevenson: Encounters in Death and Letters; V. ReidCroisset-London and Back, or, Flaubert's Anglo-Saxon Ghosts; C. PateyThe Imagination of Space: Ford Madox Ford and France; L. ColombinoAn Atlas of Unknown Worlds: Charting Interwar Paris in the Short Stories of Mary Butts; A. RadfordIndex.