| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-322) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
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Eccentrics and eccentricities. |
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France -- Paris. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill, Miranda. Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199543281 (DLC) 2008036156 (OCoLC)243546124 |
| ISBN |
9780191562419 (electronic book) |
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0191562416 (electronic book) |
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9780199543281 (Cloth) |
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0199543283 (Cloth) |
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