Bohemian Versus Bourgeois
Subtitle: French Society and the French Man of Letters in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780465007363
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Social World of Modern French Letters; title: Chapter I: The Monarchy of the Middle Classes: France 1830-1848; title: Chapter II: The Climate of Intellectual Disaffection; title: Chapter III: The Empire of Paris and the Intellectual Outcast; title: Chapter IV: The New Literary Market; title: Chapter V: The Modern Man of Letters as a Social Problem; title: Chapter VI: The Literary View of Bourgeois Society; title: Chapter VII: The Ideological Significance of Bohemian Life; title: Part 2: Three Literary Critics of Bourgeois Society: Stendhal, Flaubert, and Baudelaire; title: Chapter VIII: Bourgeois Enterprise and Modern Life: Cultural Devaluation and the Rising Market; title: Chapter IX: The Fanaticism of Utensils: Bourgeois Culture as Mass Culture; title: Chapter X: The Attack on the Social, Economic, and Psychological Optimism of Modern Society; title: Chapter XI: The Literary Man in Modern Society: Alienation, Boredom, Hedonism, and Escape; title: Chapter XII: The Literary Man in Modern Society: a Peculiar Aristocracy; title: Part 3: The Heritage of Alienation: Productivity, Social Efficiency, and Intellectual Gloom; title: Index