Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK and Richard Thomson, University of Edinburgh, UK Richard Thomson, Paul Galvez, Simon Kelly, Bradley Fratello, David Hopkin, Anna Green, Clare A. P. Willsdon, Michael Pakenham, Frances Fowle.

'... an important contribution to scholarship on nineteenth-century art and culture.' Marnin Young, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

• Contents: Introduction, Richard Thomson; The viewer on the beach, John House; Courbet's touch, Paul Galvez; 'This dangerous game': Rousseau, Diaz and the uses of the auction in the marketing of landscape, Simon Kelly; Footsteps in Normandy: Jean-François Millet and provincial nostalgia in late 19th-century France, Bradley Fratello; Legendary Places: oral history and folk geography in 19th-century Brittany, David Hopkin; 'Rivers of lemonade and mountains of sugar': representations of country and city in 19th-century French children's literature, Anna Green; 'Promenades et plantations': Impressionism, conservation and Haussmann's reinvention of Paris, Clare A. P. Willsdon; The insatiable appetite of Paris: Zola's Claude Lantier before L'Oeuvre, Michael Pakenham; Painting like a Provençal: Cézanne, Van Gogh and the secret of Monticelli's 'alchemy', Frances Fowle; Monet's 'Rouen cathedrals': anarchism, Gothic architecture, and instantaneous photography, Richard Thomson; Index.