03935nam 2200721Ia 450 991082834540332120240505221137.00-8047-7254-110.1515/9780804772549(CKB)2550000000007056(EBL)483437(OCoLC)609855924(SSID)ssj0000357284(PQKBManifestationID)11272678(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357284(PQKBWorkID)10352941(PQKB)11421865(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127875(DE-B1597)564719(DE-B1597)9780804772549(Au-PeEL)EBL483437(CaPaEBR)ebr10356726(OCoLC)1178769988(MiAaPQ)EBC483437(EXLCZ)99255000000000705620090105d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBohemia in America, 1858-1920 /Joanna Levin1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20101 online resource (481 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6083-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. The “Vault at Pfaff ’s”: Whitman, Bohemia, and the Saturday Press --2. Bret Harte, Urban Spectatorship, and the Bohemian West --3. “A Plot to Live Around”: La Vie Bohème in Fiction, City Sketches, and Memoir --4. The Bohemian Grove and the Making of the Bourgeois- Bohemian --5. Regional Bohemias --6. Cosmopolitan Bohemias --7. The Spiritual Geography of Greenwich Village, 1912– 1920 --Notes --IndexBohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the 1850's. At first the province of small artistic coteries, Bohemia soon inspired a popular vogue, embodied in restaurants, clubs, neighborhoods, novels, poems, and dramatic performances across the country. Levin's study follows la vie bohème from its earliest expressions in the U.S. until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1910's. Although Bohemia was everywhere in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 fills this critical void, discovering and exploring the many textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured. Joanna Levin not only provides access to a neglected cultural phenomenon but also to a new and compelling way of charting the development of American literature and culture.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterary movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterary movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBohemianismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBohemianismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBohemianism in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Literary movementsHistoryLiterary movementsHistoryBohemianismHistoryBohemianismHistoryBohemianism in literature.810.9/11Levin Joanna1661725MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828345403321Bohemia in America, 1858-19204017841UNINA