Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-440) and index.
Bohemians and bourgeois -- The boundaries of Bohemia -- A country explored: Murger -- Politics, fantasy, identity: Bohemia in the revolution of 1848 -- The poet as dandy and Bohemian: Baudelaire -- The other Bohemia and its uses -- Friends and enemies -- "A fatal scent of liberty": Bohemia and the commune of 1871 -- Public worlds and inner lives -- Publicity and fantasy: the world of the cabarets -- Compulsion and disorganization -- Cults of the self -- From Bohemia to the Avant-Garde -- Temperament, narcissism, and provocation -- Art and life in Montmartre -- Dissolving the boundaries