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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0801860636
  • ISBN-13:
    9780801860638
  • PUB. DATE:
    September 1999
  • PUBLISHER:
    Hopkins Fulfillment Service
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 / Edition 1 by Jerrold Seigel

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Bohemian Paris

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  • Pub. Date: September 1999
  • Publisher: Hopkins Fulfillment Service
  • Sales Rank: 1,184,443

Synopsis

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 postrevolutionary 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.

New York Review of Books

The research that went into Bohemian Paris turns up some treasures—the very stuff of history... This highly readable book probes further than any other I know into the reciprocating movements that connect and distinguish bohemia and bourgeois.

— Roger Shattuck

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Biography

Jerrold Seigel is William J. Kenan Professor in the Department of History at New York University. He is also the author of The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp and Marx's Fate.