Anglo-French Attitudes

Christophe Charle is Professor of Modern History at the University Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (Chair of Comparative History of European Societies) and Head of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (CNRS/ENS). Julien Vincent is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and an Associate Research Fellow of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (CNRS/ENS). Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University

• ContributorsTable of figuresAcknowledgements1.Introduction: New directions in the history of intellectuals in Britain and France - Julien VincentPART I: towards a reflexive history of intellectuals2. The intellectuals: a prehistory – Jean-philippe Genet3. British exceptionalism re-considered – Stefan ColliniPART II: an Anglo-French republic of letters ?4. The Royal Society and the Academie des Sciences in the first half of the 18th Century – Pascal Brioist5. The English in Paris –Daniel Roche6. The French Republic of Letters and English Culture, 1750-1790’ – Lawrence W. B. BrocklissPART III: Cultural transfers7. Reconstructing ruins and revolution: Towards a history of the Volney Vogue in England – Alexander Cook8. Mid-nineteenth Century ‘moral sciences’ between Paris and Cambridge – David PalfreyPART IV: The internationalisation of intellectual life9. Literary import into France and Britain around 1900: a comparative study – Blaise Wilfert10. The commerce of ideas: protectionism and free trade in the international circulation of economic ideas in Britain and France around 1900 – Julien Vincent11. The Ibsen battle. a comparative analysis of the introduction of Henrik Ibsen in France, England and Ireland – Pascale CasanovaPART V: Intellectuals, national models and the public sphere12. French intellectuals and the impossible English model at the end of the 19th century – Christophe Charle13. An English crisis in French thought ? French intellectuals confront England at the time of Fashoda and the Boer War – Christophe Prochasson14. Homosexual networks and activist strategies from the late nineteenth century to 1939 – Florence Tamagne15. Ironies of war: Intellectual styles and responses to the Great War in Britain and France – Jay Winter16. Conclusions and perspectives – Christophe Charle