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Loading... BOHEMIAN PARIS (edition 1987)by SEIGEL JERROLD
Work InformationBohemian 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, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures--some famous, some obscure--found a home. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)944.36History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco Champagne; Ile de France; Lorraine Île-de-FranceLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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