Gill Miranda:
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Paris
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 352 pages
Size: 216x138 mm
ISBN: 9780199543281
ISBN-10: 0199543283
Eccentricity And The Cultural Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Paris
What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.

