Anglo-French attitudes: Comparisons and transfers between English and French intellectuals since the eighteenth century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719096553 ISBN 13: 9780719096556

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This collection of essays continues a favourite game of Anglo-French intellectual life since the eighteenth century: the game of cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals themselves. The contributions, which have been written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, address a broad range of issues, including the international circulation of economic, political and literary ideas, the translation and reception of authors in various contexts, and the contest for 'Englishness' or 'Frenchness' both at home and abroad. The Anglo-French relationship is used here as an entry into the conflicting demands that intellectual life should be trans-national and cosmopolitan, and that intellectuals should be the representatives of the national mind. The conversations, disputes and silences between English and French intellectuals were once believed to be at the centre of the international republic of letters. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the rise of new cultural powers re-shaped Anglo-French intellectual attitudes. Anglo-French attitudes will be read by scholars working in the areas of cultural history, intellectual history, gender studies, the social history of intellectuals, history of science, and literature.

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About the Author:

Christophe Charle is Professor of Modern History at the University Paris-I-Pantheon-Sorbonne (Chair of Comparative History of European Societies) and Head of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (CNRS/ENS). Julien Vincent is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and an Associate Research Fellow of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (CNRS/ENS). Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University -- .

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0719096553
• ISBN 13: 9780719096556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Charle Christophe, Vincent Julien, Winter Jay