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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays written by scholars from a variety of disciplines is about 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. -- .
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Acknowledgements
1.Introduction: New directions in the history of intellectuals in Britain and France - Julien Vincent
PART I: towards a reflexive history of intellectuals
2. The intellectuals: a prehistory – Jean-philippe Genet
3. British exceptionalism re-considered – Stefan Collini
PART II: an Anglo-French republic of letters ?
4. The Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences in the first half of the 18th Century – Pascal Brioist
5. The English in Paris –Daniel Roche
6. The French Republic of Letters and English Culture, 1750-1790’ – Lawrence W. B. Brockliss
PART III: Cultural transfers
7. Reconstructing ruins and revolution: Towards a history of the Volney Vogue in England – Alexander Cook
8. Mid-nineteenth Century ‘moral sciences’ between Paris and Cambridge – David Palfrey
PART IV: The internationalisation of intellectual life
9. Literary import into France and Britain around 1900: a comparative study – Blaise Wilfert
10. The commerce of ideas: protectionism and free trade in the international circulation of economic ideas in Britain and France around 1900 – Julien Vincent
11. The Ibsen battle. a comparative analysis of the introduction of Henrik Ibsen in France, England and Ireland – Pascale Casanova
PART V: Intellectuals, national models and the public sphere
12. French intellectuals and the impossible English model at the end of the 19th century – Christophe Charle
13. An English crisis in French thought ? French intellectuals confront England at the time of Fashoda and the Boer War – Christophe Prochasson
14. Homosexual networks and activist strategies from the late nineteenth century to 1939 – Florence Tamagne
15. Ironies of war: Intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France – Jay Winter
16. Conclusions and perspectives – Christophe Charle
