Time, media, and visuality in post-revolutionary France.

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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Infinitely Small Things -- Angle of Vision -- "Post-Revolutionary" Time -- Media Revolutions -- Parts and Whole -- Notes -- 1 Miniature Style, 1789-1815 -- Small Fashions -- Miniature Aesthetics -- Precarious Sympathies -- Notes -- 2 Rupture, Interrupted: Rococo Recursions and Political Futures in Percier and Fontaine's Napoleon Fan -- Architects in Fashion -- A Rococo Past -- Printing Presents and Propaganda -- Fashion Forward? -- Notes -- 3 A Draughtsman's Contract: Court and Country in the Work of Louis Lafitte -- Notes -- 4 Jean-Baptiste Huet's Lions and the Look of the Captive in Post-Revolutionary France -- Notes -- 5 First as Farce, then as Tragedy: Art, Vaudeville, and Modern Painting after the French Revolution -- Notes -- 6 Monsieur Crouton, The Shop Sign Painter: The Unexceptional Artist in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Print -- Watteau's Shop Sign and Hogarth's Shop Sign Painter -- The Changing Status of the Satirical Shop Sign Painter -- The Return of Monsieur Crouton -- Crouton on Stage -- Notes -- 7 Medium as Museum: Marie-Victoire Jaquotot's Porcelain Painting and Post-Revolutionary Fantasies of Preservation -- Porcelain Copies and the Restoration Monarchy -- Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, Creator of Inalterable Painting -- The Intimate Museum -- "The Sacrifice of Common Sense"? -- Notes -- 8 The Cultural Politics of Fashion and the French Revolution of 1830 -- "Fashion is dead" -- Fashion in Print as Political Critique -- Satires of Women and Colonialism -- Notes -- 9 A Storm is Coming: Georges Michel in the Wind -- Political Currents -- Transports -- Atmospheric Biographies -- Dead Men's Souls -- Notes -- Index -- Plates.