Paris-Edinburgh
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Belle Epoque society
Black Watch
Camille Claudel
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Charles Van Lerberghe
christophe
comparative cultural history
demolins
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Ecole Libre Des Sciences Politiques
Edinburgh College
edmond
Edmond Demolins
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European avant-garde movements
franco-scottish
Franco-Scottish relations
Franco-Scottish Society
geddes
gender and modernity
George Street
Histoire De La France Urbaine
La Belle
La Fronde
Modern Languages
National Library
Outlook Tower
Palais De Chaillot
patrick
Paul Reclus
Princes Street
Princes Street Gardens
prochasson
PUF
Puvis De Chavannes
rue
Rue Des Ecoles
Rue Des Nations
Scots College
Scottish influence on French culture
society
Summer Meetings
transnational intellectual networks
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138264304
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 behind it, however, late Victorian Edinburgh was becoming the location for a new set of cultural institutions, with its own avant-garde, that corresponded with a renewed Scottish national consciousness. While Morningside was never going to be Montparnasse, the period known as the Belle Epoque was a time in both French and Scottish society when there were stirrings of non-conformity, which often clashed with a still powerful establishment. And in this respect, French bourgeois society could be as resistant to change as the suburbs of Edinburgh. With travel and communication becoming ever easier, a growing number of international contacts developed that allowed such new and radical cultural ideas to flourish. In a series of linked essays, based on research into contemporary archives, documents and publications in both countries, as well as on new developments in cultural research, this book explores an unexpected dimension of Scottish history, while also revealing the Scottish contribution to French history. In a broader sense, and particularly as regards gender, it considers what is meant by 'modern' or 'radical' in this period, without imposing any single model. In so doing, it seeks not to treat Paris-Edinburgh links in isolation, or to exaggerate them, but to use them to provide a fresh perspective on the internationalism of the Belle Epoque.
Siân Reynolds, Emerita Professor of French, University of Stirling, UK.
