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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
Bohemian Paris Culture Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 18301930 Author:Jerrold Seigel 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 th... more »eir 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.« less