Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918

Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Marysa Demoor

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This book highlights the ways in which Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. In the course of the nineteenth century, the battlefields of Waterloo and Ypres in Belgium became veritable burial grounds for generations of dead British military, indirectly leading to the most intensive ties between the two countries. By exploring this twofold path, the author uncovers a series of cross-influences and creative similarities within the Belgo-British artistic community, and explores the background against which the British national identity was constructed. Revealing unknown links between some of the most famous artists on both sides of the channel, such as D.G. Rossetti and Jan Van Eyck; Christina Rossetti and Fernand Khnopff; John Millais and Pieter Breughel, and Lewis Carroll and Quentin Massys, the book emphasises an artistic cross-fertilisation that can be found within battlefield literature throughout the nineteenth century, including examples from the likes of William M. Thackeray, Frances Trollope and Charlotte Brontë. Providing a rich intercultural history of Belgo-British relations after the battle of Waterloo, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars and students researching history, literature, art and cultural studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-23
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt396 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBritain and the World
Antal sidor288
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030879280

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Marysa Demoor is Full Professor Emerita of English Literature and Culture at Ghent University in Belgium, where, since 1995, she has been the Director of the Centre for Gender Studies. She has published widely on Victorian and modernist culture, including the books Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-fashioning (Palgrave, 2004) and The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press (Palgrave, 2009).

1. British Identity in Belgian Soil.- 2. Waterloo Visitors: The Immediate Aftermath.- 3. The Fiction of Belgium.- 4. The Allure of the Middle Ages: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood meets Jan van Eyck.- 5. A Royal Example: Creating a European Family.- 6. Surrealist Entanglements.- 7. From Ashes to Soil to Mud.- 8. "There is no art more exciting than English art": Belgo-British Artistic Liaisons, 1890-1919.- 9. Epilogue: The Colour of National Identity.

“Demoor’s monograph is ambitious in covering more than a century of interactions across different cultural spheres. … The book offers plenty of thought-provoking material on the connected cultures of two European countries, based on the author’s original reading of a vast range of materials.” (Daniel Laqua, Victorian Studies, Vol. 66 (4), 2024) “This is a uniquely rich and stimulating study, which is sure to expand the horizons of researchers working in any of the numerous fields with which it engages.” (Adrian Armstrong, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 24 (1), 2024)“A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 explores the artistic connections and socio-cultural exchanges between the two countries from the Battle of Waterloo to the First World War. In a remarkable count of ten chapters, the book achieves its main objective … . Demoor’s revitalisation of the ‘historical, cultural, economic, and genetic’ (261) links between Britain and continental Europe serves as a timely reminder and celebration of their shared heritage and futures.” (Yimon Lo, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 138, 2023) “Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium is particularly interesting. The way in which Demoor brings together death, mud and the birth of an identity is simply fascinating … .” (Marnix Verplancke, the-low-countries.com, August 12, 2022)