The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture

by Alfred Thomas

The Bohemian Body examines the modernist forces within nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups--Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.
By re-examining the work of key Czech male and female writers and poets from the National Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary criticism to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299222802
• ISBN13: 9780299222802
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"