Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris /
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 an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.