num_pages: 464
description: Exotic and yet familiar, rife with passion, immorality, hunger, and freedom, Bohemia was an object of both worry and fascination to workaday Parisians in the nineteenth century. No mere revolt against middle-class society, the Bohemia Seigel discovers was richer and more complex, the stage on which modern bourgeois acted out the conflicts of their social identities, testing the liberation promised by post-revolutionary society against the barriers set up to contain it. Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures—some famous, some obscure—found a home.
language: English
title: Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
titlecomplete: Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
genres: France, Politics, Nonfiction, 19th Century, Art, History
ratings_count: 92
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press