Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Theorising Renoir’s narrative style: Bazin, Faulkner, and Braudy; Chapter 1: Teatro Mundi: Framing Urban Dynamics in Renoir’s Paris; Chapter 2: From Desert to Dreamscape: Viewing Renoir’s Rural Landscapes as Spatial Arenas; Chapter 3: Portraying the Future(s) of the Front Populaire; Chapter 4: Renoir’s Crises Anti-réalistes: Framing le Temps Gelé; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix: Corpus Breakdown