Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic technique, T.J. Clark describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat and others as an attempt to give form to France's modernity and seek out its typical representatives, be they barmaids, sightseers or the petits bourgeois.

Includes stories about Dublin life.

This study takes a fresh look at one of the most fertile periods in English literature, and questions the validity of grouping such diverse talents as Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Scott, and Austen under the critical label of `Romantic'.

Based on a close examination of letters, diaries and account books, this study offers an insight into the intimate and everyday lives of genteel women and transforms our understanding of the position of women in this period.

Written in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel appeared anonymously in 1778. Subtitled The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World , it records in letters its heroine's encounters with an education at the hands of London society.