Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Springtime and Winter of the People in France, 1848–1852 5
6. 2. Radical Realism and Its Offspring 77
7. 3. Radical Realism Continued 139
8. 4. The Pre-Raphaelites and the 1848 Revolutions 225
9. 5. The Macchia and the Risorgimento 365
10. 6. Cultural Inflections of Slavery and Manifest Destiny in America 403
11. 7. Biedermeier Culture and the Revolutions of 1848 471
12. 8. The Second Empire’s Official Realism 577
13. 9. Edouard Manet: Man About Town 633
14. 10. The Franco-Prussian War, the French Commune, and the Threshold of Impressionism 737
15. Coda: Menzel and the Transition to Empire 783
16. Notes 801
17. Photo Credits 863
18. Index 865