Introduction: Literature, History, Society and the Arts

In May 2010, at its annual congress held at Charles de Gaulle University, Lille 3, the French Association for English Studies, the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur), explored the broad notion of the horizon, using it to re-approach some of the traditional research issues that mark Anglophone studies in France. One of the many ways of exploring this theme, as outlined in the conference framework document, was to see the horizon...