Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
by Jerrold Seigel
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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, show more Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures--some famous, some obscure--found a home. show lessTags
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Jerrold Seigel is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at New York University
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- 944.36 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco Champagne; Ile de France; Lorraine Île-de-France
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- DC715 .S42 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Local history and description Paris
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