Europe in British Literature and Culture

Author:   Petra Rau (University of East Anglia) ,  William T. Rossiter (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009425490


Pages:   454
Publication Date:   13 June 2024
Format:   Hardback
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How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages? This volume offers nuanced answers to this question. From the High Renaissance to haute cuisine, from the Republic of Letters to the European Union, from the Black Death to Brexit -- the reader gains insights into the main geographical zones of influence, shared intellectual movements, indicative modes of cultural transfer and more recent conflicts that have left their mark on the British-European relationship. The story that emerges from this long history of cultural interactions is much more complex than its most recent political episode might suggest. This volume offers indispensable contexts to the manifold and longstanding connections between British and European literature and culture. This book suggests that, however the political landscape develops, we will do well to bear this exceptionally rich history in mind.

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Author:   Petra Rau (University of East Anglia) ,  William T. Rossiter (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009425490


ISBN 10:   1009425498
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   13 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table 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.

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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.

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