Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris / Miranda Gill.

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Gill, Miranda

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191562419
0191562416
9786612053283
6612053283

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris.DDC classification:

944/.36106 22

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DC715 .G497 2009eb

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Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. CAUSES AND CONTEXTS; PART II. FASHIONABLE SOCIETY; PART III. THE UNDERWORLD; PART IV. SCIENCE; Epilogue: Eccentricity in European Perspective; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak. - ;What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism pro.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-322) and index.

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak. - ;What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism pro.

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