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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825059803321

Autore

Gill Miranda

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-04505-4

1-282-05328-0

9786612053283

0-19-156241-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

944/.36106

Soggetti

Eccentrics and eccentricities - France - Paris - History - 19th century

Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.