Contributors
Table of figures
Acknowledgements
1.Introduction: New directions in the history of intellectuals in
Britain and France - Julien Vincent
PART I: towards a reflexive history of intellectuals
2. The intellectuals: a prehistory – Jean-philippe Genet
3. British exceptionalism re-considered – Stefan Collini
PART 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 Brioist
5. The English in Paris –Daniel Roche
6. The French Republic of Letters and English Culture, 1750-1790’ –
Lawrence W. B. Brockliss
PART III: Cultural transfers
7. Reconstructing ruins and revolution: Towards a history of the
Volney Vogue in England – Alexander Cook
8. Mid-nineteenth Century ‘moral sciences’ between Paris and
Cambridge – David Palfrey
PART IV: The internationalisation of intellectual life
9. Literary import into France and Britain around 1900: a
comparative study – Blaise Wilfert
10. The commerce of ideas: protectionism and free trade in the
international circulation of economic ideas in Britain and France
around 1900 – Julien Vincent
11. The Ibsen battle. a comparative analysis of the introduction of
Henrik Ibsen in France, England and Ireland – Pascale Casanova
PART V: Intellectuals, national models and the public sphere
12. French intellectuals and the impossible English model at the
end of the 19th century – Christophe Charle
13. An English crisis in French thought ? French intellectuals
confront England at the time of Fashoda and the Boer War –
Christophe Prochasson
14. Homosexual networks and activist strategies from the late
nineteenth century to 1939 – Florence Tamagne
15. Ironies of war: Intellectual styles and responses to the Great
War in Britain and France – Jay Winter
16. Conclusions and perspectives – Christophe Charle
Christophe Charle is Professor of Modern History at the University Paris-I-Pantheon-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
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