Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

ISBN: 9780199543281 出版年：2009 页码：341 Gill, Miranda Oxford University Press

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.