Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Miranda Gill

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199543283
• ISBN13: 9780199543281
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"