Mutual (In)Comprehensions

France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4777-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten

This collection of essays by French and British humanities scholars explores the complex relationship between the two nations in the long nineteenth century. Both countries contemplated the other with admiration and anxiety, using their best enemy to shape their own national identities.

Mutual (In)Comprehensions is unique in the range of its coverage, which includes artistic, literary, economic, educational, social, and historical interpretations, interactions, and appropriations. British railway engineers consider the character of the French railway worker; a French illustrator portrays with disturbing insight the social divisions of Victorian London; British agricultural writers find cause for reflection in the condition of the French peasantry; and an English Anglo-Catholic considers the lessons for her church in the history of post-Reformation French Catholicism. French architects discover something to admire in the British Gothic Revival, while geographical societies on both sides of the Channel exhibit a spirit of international co-operation.

Including the work of both established academics and young scholars, the collection demonstrates the significance of Franco-British interactions over the long nineteenth century, and shows that – as ever – British culture can only be fully understood within a Continental framework, and vice versa. This volume will appeal to scholars of Victorian culture, in particular French and British nineteenth-century literature and art, as well as to academics interested in the development of national identities and international cultural relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Mitchell, Rosemary
Rosemary Mitchell is Reader in Victorian Studies and Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University, West Yorkshire. She is author of Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870 (2000), and has also published articles in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Clio, and Women’s History Review, and has written nearly 150 entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

Rosemary Mitchell is Reader in Victorian Studies and Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University, West Yorkshire. She is author of Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870 (2000), and has also published articles in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Clio, and Women’s History Review, and has written nearly 150 entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).