02641nam 2200565 a 450 991045404130332120200520144314.01-282-05328-097866120532830-19-156241-6(CKB)1000000000724301(EBL)430879(OCoLC)319212734(SSID)ssj0000142793(PQKBManifestationID)11136262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142793(PQKBWorkID)10097492(PQKB)11571421(MiAaPQ)EBC430879(Au-PeEL)EBL430879(CaPaEBR)ebr10288264(CaONFJC)MIL205328(EXLCZ)99100000000072430120080818d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris[electronic resource] /Miranda GillOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (341 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-954328-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-322) and index.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; IndexWhat 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 proEccentrics and eccentricitiesFranceParisHistory19th centuryParis (France)Social life and customs19th centuryElectronic books.Eccentrics and eccentricitiesHistory944/.36106Gill Miranda1000454MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454041303321Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris2296432UNINA