Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? (Paperback, 1)

Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Hollis Clayson and Andre Dombrowski SECTION I: MODERNITY Introduction by Andre Dombrowski 1 Architecture’s Capital? Revisiting Benjamin’s Paris Charles Rice 2 How Haussmann’s Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa 3 The Guillotine Sublime Marc Gotlieb 4 Victorine’s Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of Commodities Paul Smith 5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarme, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874 Margaret Werth SECTION II: GEOGRAPHY Introduction by Hollis Clayson 6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb 7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts 8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang 9 White City vs. La Ville lumiere: Electrical Displays at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Helene Valance SECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson 10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet 11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Negre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis 12 Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy Andre Dombrowski 13 Mary Cassatt’s Lamp Hollis Clayson Afterword Hollis Clayson and Andre Dombrowski Further Reading Index