International Bohemia Scenes of Nineteenth Century Daniel Cottom 2013 1st Ed HC

International BohemiaScenes of Nineteenth-Century Life\nAuthor(s): Daniel Cottom\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812244885, 978-0812244885\nSynopsis\nHow did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism's modern sense in Paris during the 1830s and 1840s, Cottom traces the twists and turns of this phenomenon through the rest of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century in the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany.\n Even when they traveled under the banner of l'art pour l'art, the bohemians of th.