Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris [[electronic resource] /] / Miranda Gill

• Autore: Gill Miranda
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Disciplina: 944/.36106
• Soggetto topico: Eccentrics and eccentricities - France - Paris - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris
• ISBN: 1-282-05328-0; 9786612053283; 0-19-156241-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454041303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II