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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsList 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 asymétrique? Franco-British Literary Exchanges in 1908; R.Hibbitt Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe; J.Barnes & H.Lee Transposing Wilde's Salomé: 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: André Gide and his Correspondents; P.Pollard Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, the Nouvelle Revue Française 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
