Gatheral, James,
The bohemian republic : transnational literary networks in the nineteenth century / James Gatheral. - 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) - Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature .
In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia's cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions and social practices within a global context of ideas and action. Though the story of Parisian Bohemia has been comprehensively told, much less is known of its Anglophone translations. The Bohemian Republic offers a radical reinterpretation of the phenomenon, as the neglected lives and works of British, Irish, American, and Australian Bohemians are reassessed, the transnational networks of Bohemia are rediscovered, the presence and influence of women in Bohemia is reclaimed, and Bohemia's relationship with the marketplace is reconsidered. Bohemia emerges as a marginal network which exerted a paradoxically powerful influence on the development of popular culture, in the vanguard of material, social and aesthetic innovations in literature, art, journalism, and theatre. Underpinned by extensive and original archival research, the book repopulates the concept of Bohemianism with layers of the networked voices, expressions, ideas, people, places, and practices that made up its constituent social, imagined, and interpretive communities. The reader is brought closer than ever to the heart of Bohemia, a shadowy world inhabited by the rebels of the mid-nineteenth century.
1000226573 9781000226690 1000226697 9781000226638 1000226638 9781003038610 1003038611 9781000226577
10.4324/9781003038610 doi
Bohemianism in literature.
Bohemianism--History--19th century.
Literature and society--History--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century.
Authors, Irish--19th century.
Authors, American--19th century.
Authors, Australian--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
PN56.B63 / G38 2021
809/.933552
The bohemian republic : transnational literary networks in the nineteenth century / James Gatheral. - 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) - Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature .
In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia's cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions and social practices within a global context of ideas and action. Though the story of Parisian Bohemia has been comprehensively told, much less is known of its Anglophone translations. The Bohemian Republic offers a radical reinterpretation of the phenomenon, as the neglected lives and works of British, Irish, American, and Australian Bohemians are reassessed, the transnational networks of Bohemia are rediscovered, the presence and influence of women in Bohemia is reclaimed, and Bohemia's relationship with the marketplace is reconsidered. Bohemia emerges as a marginal network which exerted a paradoxically powerful influence on the development of popular culture, in the vanguard of material, social and aesthetic innovations in literature, art, journalism, and theatre. Underpinned by extensive and original archival research, the book repopulates the concept of Bohemianism with layers of the networked voices, expressions, ideas, people, places, and practices that made up its constituent social, imagined, and interpretive communities. The reader is brought closer than ever to the heart of Bohemia, a shadowy world inhabited by the rebels of the mid-nineteenth century.
1000226573 9781000226690 1000226697 9781000226638 1000226638 9781003038610 1003038611 9781000226577
10.4324/9781003038610 doi
Bohemianism in literature.
Bohemianism--History--19th century.
Literature and society--History--19th century.
Authors, English--19th century.
Authors, Irish--19th century.
Authors, American--19th century.
Authors, Australian--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
PN56.B63 / G38 2021
809/.933552