The flâneur described in Charles Baudelaire’s ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863) has become central to understandings of gender, space and the gaze in scholarship on the post-Haussmann period. Baudel
Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-A -vis the public. Attending t
Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Contributors analyze portraits of men in domestic and st
