{"product_id":"international-bohemia-scenes-of-nineteenth-century-life-hardback-9780812244885","title":"International Bohemia; Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life (Hardback) 9780812244885","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInternational Bohemia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eScenes of Nineteenth-Century Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Cottom (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812244885\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 March 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 17 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Polished, eloquent, and witty, \u003ci\u003eInternational Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular achievement, a truly profound exploration of the mobile and ever shape-shifting phenomenon known as \u003ci\u003ela vie bohème\u003c\/i\u003e.\" (Joanna Levin, Chapman University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did this vagabond word, \u003ci\u003ebohemia\u003c\/i\u003e, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In \u003ci\u003eInternational Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism's modern sense in Paris during the 1830s and 1840s, Cottom traces the twists and turns of this phenomenon through the rest of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century in the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany.\u003cbr\u003e Even when they traveled under the banner of \u003ci\u003el'art pour l'art\u003c\/i\u003e, the bohemians of this era generally saw little reason to observe borderlines between their lives and their art. On the contrary, they were eager to mix up the one with the other, despite the fact that their critics often reproached them on this account by claiming that bohemians were all talk-do-nothings frittering away their lives in cafÉs and taverns. Cottom's study of bohemianism draws from the biographies of notable and influential figures of the time, including Thomas Chatterton, George Sand, George Eliot, Henry Murger, Alexandre Privat d'Anglemont, Walt Whitman, Ada Clare, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Through a wide range of novels, memoirs, essays, plays, poems, letters, and articles, \u003ci\u003eInternational Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many manifestations of this transnational counterculture, addressing topics such as anti-Semitism, the intersections of race and class, the representation of women, the politics of art and masquerade, the nature of community, and the value of nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Bohemian Poseur Jew\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Indignity of Labor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Unknowing Privat\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. America, the Birthplace of Bohemia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Poverty of Nations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Sherlock Holmes Meets Dracula\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555717017880,"sku":"9780812244885","price":48.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/international-bohemia-scenes-of-nineteenth-century-life-hardback-9780812244885","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}