Internationalism and the arts in Britain and Europe at the fin de siècle

Contents

Introduction: Internationalism and the arts / Grace Brockington -- Walter Sickert and the language of art / Anna Gruetzner Robins -- Music and the borders of rationality : discourses of place in the work of John Foulds / James Mansell -- "The venerable artist's fiery speeches ringing in my soul" : the artistic impact of William Morris and his circle in nineteenth-century Russia / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- The arts and crafts movement, internationalism, and vernacular revival in Central Europe, c. 1900 / Andrzej Szczerski -- The Wildes of Bohemia : the cosmopolitan voice of Modern revue / Neil Stewart -- Cambridge University and the Germanist bridge : the aesthetics and politics of internationalism at the fin de siècle / Matthew Potter -- The trouble with cosmopolitans : Forster and Ford between nation and internationalism / Petra Rau -- Ibsenism and Shakespeare : insularity and internationalism in early British Ibsen reception / Tore Rem -- Internationalist in spite of themselves : Britain and Belgium at the fin de siècle / Anne Leonard -- Transnational endeavours and the "totality of knowledge" : Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as "integral internationalists" in fin-de-siècle Europe / Daniel Laqua -- Between the lines : George Bernard Shaw as cultural and political mediator / Hannes Schweiger -- "A Jacob's ladder between country and country" : art and diplomacy before the First World War / Grace Brockington.