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Tables of Contents for Narrating Modernity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: Narrating modernity
1
4
1 Towards a definition of the problem picture
5
26
The emergence of the problem picture
8
11
The problem picture: a chronological narrative
19
3
The problem picture as social practice: audiences
22
3
The problem picture as social practice: the press
25
3
The 'problem picture'
28
3
2 Woman as problem
31
15
Sex and the 'marriage problem'
35
3
Woman as problem
38
3
Decoding woman
41
5
3 Modern art and modern life
46
22
Trouble and the painting of modern life: Collier in the 1890s
48
14
A Confession and The Prodigal Daughter: producing the problem picture
62
6
4 The fashionable problem picture: viewers and viewings
68
32
The fallen woman and the New Woman: The Prodigal Daughter
69
8
'An unpleasant squabble at cards': The Cheat
77
6
Mothers and daughters: Mariage de Convenance
83
6
Modern masculinity: The Sentence of Death
89
11
5 The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other
100
28
The 'problem picture' and the press, 1909-13
101
5
The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other
106
22
6 The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art
128
17
From high art to entertainment: A Fallen Idol
129
8
Embodying viewers
137
8
Notes
145
21
Bibliography
166
19
Index
185