Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

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Illustrated
2009
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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.

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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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 342
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 15 Jan 2009
ISBN 10: 0199543283
ISBN 13: 9780199543281

Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

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$166.18

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$166.18

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