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A cross-cultural history of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 : mudscapes and artistic entanglements / Marysa Demoor.

"This is a boldly original and enlightening book which explores the rich and distinct 'special' relationship between Britain and Belgium in the nineteenth century. By examining a set of 'cultural entanglements', from Waterloo to WWI, and taking in writers from Wordsworth to...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Demoor, Marysa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Britain and the world.
Subjects:
War and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
War and literature > Belgium > History > 19th century.
Art and war > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Relations > Belgium > History > 19th century.
Belgium > Relations > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
World history.
Civilization > History.
Collective memory.
Art and war.
International relations.
War and literature.
Belgium.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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