Introduction

Ceri Crossley, Ian Small

1-16

The uses of decadence

Wilde, Yeats, Joyce

Richard Ellmann

17-33

The reception of French literature in England, 1885–1914

John J. Conlon

34-46

English criticism and French post-impressionist painting

J. B. Bullen

47-67

France and the construction of the avant-garde in Britain

Ian Small

68-83

Arnold Bennett and the desire for France

Norma Rinsler

84-101

Rediscovering the French eighteenth century

Ceri Crossley

102-123

A diet of dead crow

aspects of French culture in the criterion (1923–39)

Vanessa Davies

124-134

The decline and fall of existentialism

Colin Wilson

135-153

French film culture and British cinema

Jill Forbes

154-186

Althusserian materialism in England

Susan James

187-209

Home thoughts from abroad

Derrida, Austin and the Oxford connection

Christopher Norris

210-235

A modern writer's France

John Fowles

236-247