Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on...
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Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the liberation promised by post-revolutionary society against the barriers set up to contain it. Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures—some famous, some obscure—found a home.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801860638 (0801860636)
ASIN: 0801860636
Publish date: 1999-09-03
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Interesting material, but flawed treatment - the author is not disciplined enough (for my tastes); is prone to generalities; he often tells the reader what large arcs are implicit in the texts he is examining - but does not always demonstrate that that is the case. In other words, he outruns his ma...
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