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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Miranda, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Eccentrics and eccentricities.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Other Title:

Eccentricity & the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

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

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04505-4

1-282-05328-0

9786612053283

0-19-156241-6

OCLC:

319212734