Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940 Channel Packets [Hardcover]

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.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Channel Vision; A.Radford & V.Reid Sea Change: English Responses to French Poetry between Decadence and Modernism; J.Higgins Entente asym?trique? Franco-British Literary Exchanges in 1908; R.Hibbitt Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe; J.Barnes & H.Lee Transposing Wilde's Salom?: The French Operas by Strauss and Mariotte; E.Eells Valery Larbaud, Thomas Hardy and The Dynasts, with two letters from Larbaud to Hardy; D.Roe Exploring English Realist Fiction: Andr? Gide and his Correspondents; P.Pollard Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, the Nouvelle Revue Fran?aise and the English Adventure Novel; D.Steel Marcel Schwob and Robert Louis Stevenson: Encounters in Death and Letters; V.Reid Croisset-London and Back, or, Flaubert's Anglo-Saxon Ghosts; C.Patey The Imagination of Space: Ford Madox Ford and France; L.Colombino An Atlas of Unknown Worlds: Charting Interwar Paris in the Short Stories of Mary Butts; A.Radford Index

'With its wide range of insightful essays on both French- and English-language texts, Radford and Reid's book has much to contribute to our understanding both of Modernism as a transnational phenomenon and, more specifically, of the rich and peculiar cultural history of the Channel and its coasts.' - Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literatures in English, Aarhus University; author of Literature, Identity and the English Channel

JULIAN BARNES Independent scholar and authorLAURA COLOMBINO Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Genoa, ItalyRICHARD HIBBITT Senior Lecturer in French, University of Leeds, UKHERMIONE LEE President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UKCAROLINE PATEY Professor of English LiteraturelCT