… Especially in a heterogeneous context in which several languages and cultural domains
interacted, such as Belgium during the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century,
cultural mediators played important transfer roles by which they contributed to the often
simultaneous construction of a regional, national and international cultural identities. After
first criticizing several aspects of the approaches of mediators in cultural history, literary
history and translation studies, we secondly present a tentative multipolar model to study …

… Towards a multipolar model of cultural mediators within multicultural spaces … Towards
a multipolar model of cultural mediators within multicultural spaces … Cultural mediators in
Belgium, 1830-1945: Crossing borders, borders resisting …