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Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris Gill, Miranda (University of Cambridge)
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Gill, Miranda (University of Cambridge)
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.
352 pages, 18 black-and-white halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 15, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199543281 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 224 × 148 × 27 mm · 589 g |
| Language | English |