Research Catalog

Title

The Bohemian Republic : transnational literary networks in the nineteenth century / James Gatheral.

Author

Gatheral, James

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2021.

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Details

Description

xv, 304 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

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, trans-Atlantic, 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.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• 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
• Authors, American
• Authors, Australian
• Authors, English
• Authors, Irish
• Bohemianism
• Literature and society

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-297) and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-2819

ISBN

• 9780367482046
• 0367482045

OCLC

1158472465

Author

Gatheral, James, author.

Title

The Bohemian Republic : transnational literary networks in the nineteenth century / James Gatheral.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-297) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000226690

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2819