Article: Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France, 1850-1900.(Review)

Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France, 1850-1900. Ed. by RICHARD HOBBS. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1998. x + 214 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling].

The distinguished contributors to this attractive volume are ill served only by its introduction, which retails formulations ranging from the trite to the problematic. The cultural 'watershed' of a 'Janus-like' 1848 dissolves into 'the sorry spectacle of slaughter at the barricades in the June days as the Second Republic became divided'. Haussmann then transforms the capital 'from the intimacy of le vieux Paris' (p. 2). 'Delacroix was truly a citizen of the nineteenth century', ...

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