Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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 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
List Price: $ 110.00
Price:
Posted in eccentrics | 
Tags: class readers, Cultural, Eccentricity, Imagination, madhouse, NineteenthCentury, Paris