Opening book details…
Can I read Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris on EtoBox?
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Miranda Gill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris about?
<br> 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 <em>demi-monde</em> to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secre yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order ye simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the <em>fin de siècle</em>, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repu
Who reads Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Miranda Gill
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199543281
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Miranda Gill
Browse all works by Miranda Gill
Similar books
- Victorian Gothic Literature And Cultural Manifestations In The Nineteenth Century — RUTH ROBBINS AND JULIAN WOLFREYS, edited by (2000)
- The Madwoman in the Attic : the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination — Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (1980)
- Metahistory: the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe. -- — Hayden V White; American Council of Learned Societies (1975)
- Popular Bohemia : Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris — Mary Gluck (2005)
- Medical Muses : Hysteria in Nineteenth-century Paris — Asti Hustvedt (2011)
- A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cultural Histories) — David Bolt; Robert McRuer; Christian Laes; Jonathan Horng Hsy; Tory Vandeventer Pearman; Joshua Eyler; Susan Anderson, Dr.; Liam D Haydon; Chris Gabbard; Susannah B Mintz; Joyce L Huff; Martha Stoddard Holmes; David T Mitchell; Sharon L Snyder (2022)
