By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged
as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music
and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture. Edinburgh, by
contrast, may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers
and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. While its great
days as a centre for the European Enlightenment may have been
behind it, however, late Victorian Edinburgh was becoming the
location for a new set of cultural institutions, with its own
avant-garde, that corresponded with a renewed Scottish national
consciousness. While Morningside was never going to be
Montparnasse, the period known as the Belle Epoque was a time in
both French and Scottish society when there were stirrings of
non-conformity, which often clashed with a still powerful
establishment. And in this respect, French bourgeois society could
be as resistant to change as the suburbs of Edinburgh. With travel
and communication becoming ever easier, a growing number of
international contacts developed that allowed such new and radical
cultural ideas to flourish. In a series of linked essays, based on
research into contemporary archives, documents and publications in
both countries, as well as on new developments in cultural
research, this book explores an unexpected dimension of Scottish
history, while also revealing the Scottish contribution to French
history. In a broader sense, and particularly as regards gender, it
considers what is meant by 'modern' or 'radical' in this period,
without imposing any single model. In so doing, it seeks not to
treat Paris-Edinburgh links in isolation, or to exaggerate them,
but to use them to provide a fresh perspective on the
internationalism of the Belle Epoque.
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