Research Catalog

Title

Propaganda, gender, and cultural power : projections and perceptions of France in Britain c. 1880-1944 / Charlotte Faucher.

Author

Faucher, Charlotte, 1988-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Details

Description

xiv, 238 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

'Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power' tells the story of the gendered methods, policies and institutions that contributed to the making of French cultural diplomacy in Britain, against the backdrop of war, changing Franco-British relations, European tensions and the global transformation of what 'foreign affairs' meant to states.

Series Statement

A British Academy monograph

Uniform Title

British Academy monograph.

Subject

• International relations
• Public opinion, British
• Relations
• France > Relations > History. > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Relations > History. > France
• France > Foreign public opinion, British > History
• France
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-232) and index.

Contents

Citizens, cultural diplomats, and new diplomatic history -- Gender and international relations -- Languages of cultural diplomacy -- European encounters in Britain -- Searching for t̀rue France' -- 1. Projections and Perceptions of France in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- French community in Britain -- Fragmented ideas of France -- German question -- Ambivalent diplomats -- Championing the Entente Cordiale -- Conclusion -- 2. Gender and High-Society Cultural Diplomacy, 1900-1913 -- Marie Orliac's London -- Trans-Channel education -- High-society cultural diplomacy -- Gender and the politics of Frenchness -- Regulating French culture -- Conclusion -- 3. Gendered and Transnational Workings of Academic Diplomacy -- internationalisation of French universities -- ỳoung female associates' vs the c̀ollegium of deans' -- Business and Franco-British relations -- British provincial elite and European culture -- Staging Franco-British friendship -- Conclusion -- 4. Transnational French and British Cultural Fronts, 1914-1919 -- French and Franco-Allied cultural mobilisation -- Refugee organisations and spaces of propaganda -- State propaganda -- Debating the gender and training of cultural diplomats -- Conclusion -- 5. Women and the Professional isation of Cultural Diplomacy in the Interwar Period -- content and gender of cultural diplomacy -- Denis Saurat, the Quai d'Orsay's archetypal cultural diplomat? -- gender and classes of audiences -- Propaganda returns -- Conclusion -- 6. Resistantes and Children in the Service of Charles de Gaulle's Propaganda -- Gaullist cultural ambitions -- British and imperial cultural propaganda -- From London to North America -- Free French children.

Call Number

JFE 23-1316

ISBN

• 9780197267318
• 0197267319

LCCN

2022287398

OCLC

1276932927

Author

Faucher, Charlotte, 1988- author.

Title

Propaganda, gender, and cultural power : projections and perceptions of France in Britain c. 1880-1944 / Charlotte Faucher.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A British Academy monograph

British Academy monograph.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-232) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1316