1st Edition
Paris-Edinburgh Cultural Connections in the Belle Epoque
By Siân Reynolds
Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture. Edinburgh, by contrast, may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. While its great days as a centre for the European Enlightenment may have been... Read more
Chapter 1 Seine and Forth; Chapter 2 Stone Cities; Chapter 3 Taking the Boat-train to Montparnasse; Chapter 4 Bringing Parisians to Edinburgh; Chapter 5 A ‘Petite Entente’? The Origins of the Franco-Scottish Society; Chapter 6 Professor Geddes Goes to the Fair; Chapter 7 An ‘Entente Cordiale’ in Publishing, or a Scottish Victory? Nelson’s French Collection; Chapter 8 New Women, Old Men?; Chapter 101 Afterword;
Biography
Siân Reynolds, Emerita Professor of French, University of Stirling, UK.
’... Reynolds's well-crafted account adds new dimensions of complexity to the view of Paris as the capital of modernity around 1900.’ H-France ’There is much lively and thought-provoking detail in Reynold's book, which also raises some suggestive wider issues.’ French Studies ’This study, obviously inspired by the fondness of its author for both cities, is beautifully illustrated and is relevant to several different fields of research (history, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, arts and architecture). It offers the reader an extremely well-documented perspective on both cities whilst leading him/her in an entertaining (re)discovery of Paris and Edinburgh architecture, buildings and monuments. ... The book is divided into eight skilfully linked chapters. ... Overall, this book will appeal to both specialists and nonspecialists of history and cultural studies. Whilst being an invaluable reference for the former, it invites the latter to take an exciting journey renewed several times back and forth in time and space.’ Modern & Contemporary France
