Internationalism and the arts in Britain and Europe at the fin de siècle / Grace Brockington (ed.).
Published / Created:
Oxford ; Peter Lang, c2009.New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Physical Description:
xiii, 334 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Essays from the conference titled Internationalism and the arts : Anglo-European cultural exchange at the fin de siècle, held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in July 2006.
Contents:
Introduction: Internationalism and the arts / Grace Brockington -- Walter Sickert and the language of art / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Music and the borders of rationality : discourses of place in the work of John Foulds / James Mansell -- "The venerable artist's fiery speeches ringing in my soul" : the artistic impact of William Morris and his circle in nineteenth-century Russia / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- The arts and crafts movement, internationalism, and vernacular revival in Central Europe, c. 1900 / Andrzej Szczerski -- The Wildes of Bohemia : the cosmopolitan voice of Modern revue / Neil Stewart -- Cambridge University and the Germanist bridge : the aesthetics and politics of internationalism at the fin de siècle / Matthew Potter -- The trouble with cosmopolitans : Forster and Ford between nation and internationalism / Petra Rau -- Ibsenism and Shakespeare : insularity and internationalism in early British Ibsen reception / Tore Rem -- Internationalist in spite of themselves : Britain and Belgium at the fin de siècle / Anne Leonard -- Transnational endeavours and the "totality of knowledge" : Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as "integral internationalists" in fin-de-siècle Europe / Daniel Laqua -- Between the lines : George Bernard Shaw as cultural and political mediator / Hannes Schweiger -- "A Jacob's ladder between country and country" : art and diplomacy before the First World War / Grace Brockington.
Subject Terms:
Arts, British -- 19th century -- Congresses. | Arts, British -- 20th century -- Congresses. | Arts, European -- 19th century -- Congresses. | Arts, European -- 20th century -- Congresses. | Internationalism -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. | Internationalism -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses. | Great Britain -- Relations -- Europe -- Congresses. | Europe -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Congresses. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. | Europe -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.