List of Figures ix About the Editor xiii Notes on Contributors xv Series Editor’s Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction xxvMichelle Facos 1 Moses Jacob Ezekiel’s Religious Liberty (1876) and the Nineteenth‐Century Jewish American Experience 1Samantha Baskind 2 The Lure of “Magick Land”: British Artists and Italy in the Eighteenth Century 17Brendan Cassidy 3 Mining the Dutch Golden Age: The Avant‐Garde Enterprise 35Johanna Ruth Epstein 4 “The Revenge of Art on Life”: Beauty, Modernity, and Edward Burne‐Jones’s King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 51Andrea Wolk Rager 5 Show and Tell: Exhibition Practice in the Nineteenth Century 69Patricia Mainardi 6 Networked: The Art Market in the Nineteenth Century 83Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich 7 German Art Academies and their Impact on Artistic Style 103Sabine Wieber 8 “Orientalism” in Art: The Case of John Frederick Lewis 121Julie Codell 9 Wall to Wall: Zones of Artistic Engagement in Late Nineteenth‐Century America 139Melody Barnett Deusner 10 “Like a Dog, Just Looking”: Cézanne, Innocence, and Early Phenomenological Thought in Nineteenth‐Century France 159Nina Athanassoglou‐Kallmyer 11 Aesthetic Religion, Religious Aesthetics, and the Romantic Quest for Epiphany 175Cordula Grewe 12 The Wanderers and Realism in Tsarist Russia 193Josephine Karg 13 Thomas Cole and the Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School 209William L. Coleman 14 Sculpture and the Public Imagination: Nineteenth‐Century Site‐Specific Art of the Cemetery, the Garden, and the Street 225Caterina Y. Pierre 15 Capturing Unconsciousness: The New Psychology, Hypnosis, and the Culture of Hysteria 243Fae Brauer 16 Impressionism and the Mirror Image 263Martha Lucy 17 Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century 281Neil McWilliam 18 Australian Art in the Nineteenth‐Century: Forging a National Style 299Catherine Speck 19 Tradition and Modernity in Nineteenth‐Century Catalan Art: From Romanticism to Picasso 315M. Lluïsa Faxedas Brujats 20 Principle and Practice in Nineteenth‐Century Danish Landscape Painting 335Thor J. Mednick 21 Art and Multiculturalism in Estonia and Latvia, circa 1900 353Bart Pushaw 22 Nationalism and the Myth of Hungarian Origin: Attila and Árpád 371Terri Switzer 23 In the Service of the Nation: Forging the Identity of Polish Art in the Nineteenth Century 391Agnieszka Rosales Rodriguez 24 Facing Modernism: Jean‐Antoine Houdon and the Politics of the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth‐Century France 413Ronit Milano 25 Identity Tourism: Studio Stagings in Nineteenth‐Century Photography 431Patricia G. Berman 26 The Meaning of the Verb “To Be” in Painting: Manet’s Olympia 451Andrei Molotiu 27 Cassatt’s Singular Women: Reading Le Figaro and the Older New Woman 467Ruth E. Iskin 28 Fashion, Lithography, and Gender Instability in Romantic‐Era Paris: A Case Study 485Andrew Carrington Shelton 29 Racist or Hero of Social Art?: Degas, the Birth of Sociology, and the Biopolitical Gaze 499Michael F. Zimmermann Index 519

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