Internationalism and the arts in Britain and Europe at the fin de siècle
By: [edited by] Grace Brockington.
Contributors: Brockington, Grace, 1976-
Series: Cultural interactions : studies in the relationship between the arts -- no. 4
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783039111282
Subjects: Arts, British -- 19th century -- Congresses; Arts, British -- 20th century -- Congresses; Arts, European -- 19th century -- Congresses; Arts, European -- 20th century -- Congresses; Internationalism -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Internationalism -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Relations -- Europe -- Congresses; Europe -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- Congresses; Europe -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Essays from the conference titled Internationalism and the arts : Anglo-European cultural exchange at the fin de siècle, held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in July 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Internationalism and the arts / Grace Brockington; title: Walter Sickert and the language of art / Anna Gruetzner Robins; title: Music and the borders of rationality : discourses of place in the work of John Foulds / James Mansell; title: "The venerable artist's fiery speeches ringing in my soul" : the artistic impact of William Morris and his circle in nineteenth-century Russia / Rosalind P. Blakesley; title: The arts and crafts movement, internationalism, and vernacular revival in Central Europe, c. 1900 / Andrzej Szczerski; title: The Wildes of Bohemia : the cosmopolitan voice of Modern revue / Neil Stewart; title: Cambridge University and the Germanist bridge : the aesthetics and politics of internationalism at the fin de siècle / Matthew Potter; title: The trouble with cosmopolitans : Forster and Ford between nation and internationalism / Petra Rau; title: Ibsenism and Shakespeare : insularity and internationalism in early British Ibsen reception / Tore Rem; title: Internationalist in spite of themselves : Britain and Belgium at the fin de siècle / Anne Leonard; title: Transnational endeavours and the "totality of knowledge" : Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as "integral internationalists" in fin-de-siècle Europe / Daniel Laqua; title: Between the lines : George Bernard Shaw as cultural and political mediator / Hannes Schweiger; title: "A Jacob's ladder between country and country" : art and diplomacy before the First World War / Grace Brockington.