Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Miranda Gill

Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Miranda Gill

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What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to th...

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