Building on the long-standing image of Paris as the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century" and the "Capital of Modernity," this book examines the city's place in the imagination of Irish women writers in the long nineteenth century. By reasserting the centrality of Paris, this book drawsconnections between ...
Looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France - Degas' representation of ballet dancers and the transforming tradition of female portraiture.
