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"How has Europe shaped British literature and culture - and vice versa - since the Middle Ages? This volume discusses the long history of British-European cultural and literary interactions since the early modern period. It offers four different approaches to the complexity of 'Europe.'"--
List of contents
Part I. Zones of Influence: 1. The Mediterranean William T. Rossiter; 2. France Thomas Hinton; 3. Central Europe Richard Robinson with Julian Preece; 4. Ireland Eugene McNulty and Ellen Howley; 5. Scandinavia Elettra Carbone; 6. The Balkans and Ruritania Alex Drace-Francis; Part II. Pan-European Moods and Movements: 7. Renaissance David Rundle; 8. The Enlightenment Dorinda Outram; 9. Romanticism Rüdiger Görner; 10. The Gothic Victor Sage; 11. Modernism Sanja Bahum; Part III. Cultural Transfers: 12. Early Modern print technologies Thomas Roebuck; 13. Diplomacy Tracey A. Sowerby; 14. Grand tours and sentimental journeys Zoë Kinsley; 15. Folk and fairy tales Andrew Teverson; 16. Translation William T. Rossiter and Duncan Large; 17. More or less English: British Writers Abroad Barbara Korte; 18. Holocaust education and commemoration in Britain Sue Vice; 19. Critical and literary theory Hans Bertens; 20. Culinary longings: French food on British tables Petra Rau; Part IV. Anxious Neighbourhoods, Uncertain Futures: 21. Blockade communications: British cultural diplomacy and the wartime border Adam Piette; 22. Britain as the 'Asylum of Nations': contested migrations, 1789–1960 David Glover; 23. Great games: diplomacy and espionage in British fiction Allan Hepburn; 24. Border crises: Brexit, pandemic, war in Europe Petra Rau and William T. Rossiter.
About the author
Petra Rau specialises in Anglo-German relations and cultural memory. Her books include English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950 (2009), Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Fiction and Film (2013). She has also edited two collections on war writing and film and written a family memoir.William T. Rossiter is an expert in Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges between the fourteenth and the sixteenth century. His monographs include Chaucer and Petrarch (2010) and Wyatt Abroad: Tudor Diplomacy and the Translation of Power (2014). He has edited three volumes and published around thirty articles/chapters on Anglo-Italian influences and transactions.
Summary
How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages? This volume discusses the long history of British-European cultural and literary interactions since the early modern period. It offers four different approaches to the complexity of 'Europe.'
Foreword
This volume discusses the long history of British-European cultural and literary interactions since the early modern period.
