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Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris
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What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this study illuminates figures of...
What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.
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- Creator
- Miranda Gill
- Other Title
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- Eccentricity & the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century Paris
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023
- �2009
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1383045054, 1282053280, 9786612053283, 0191562416, 0199543283
- OCLC
- ocn319212734, on1406785600
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-322) and index.
- English
- 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