Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at Ghent University. Her research interests include modernism, literary networks, and media. Her work has been published in various scholarly journals, including PMLA, Modernist Cultures, Modern Language Review, and English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies and a member of the Young Academy of Belgium.

• Introduction 1. The Backbone of the World: Ford Madox Ford and Anglo-French Tradition2. The Age of a Mistaken Nationalism: T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Europe3. Triangular Politics: Gertrude Stein’s Ambiguous French Network4. Assez de ce scandale: Aimé Césaire, Surrealism and Europe Epilogue Index

Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at Ghent University. Her research interests include modernism, literary networks, and media. Her work has been published in various scholarly journals, including PMLA, Modernist Cultures, Modern Language Review, and English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies and a member of the Young Academy of Belgium.

• Introduction 1. The Backbone of the World: Ford Madox Ford and Anglo-French Tradition2. The Age of a Mistaken Nationalism: T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Europe3. Triangular Politics: Gertrude Stein’s Ambiguous French Network4. Assez de ce scandale: Aimé Césaire, Surrealism and Europe Epilogue Index