International Bohemia: Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life

by Daniel Cottom

How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism's modern sense in Paris during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244885
• ISBN13: 9780812244885
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"