The Bohemian Republic: Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth Century

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 The Bohemian Republic: An Introduction
	The Bohemian and the Bohémien
	Timelines
	New Perspectives on Bohemia
	Borders, Mobilities, and Networks
	Scope
2 Paris and the Birth of Bohemia
	La bohème littéraire et la Petite Presse
	Scènes de la vie de bohème
	Communal Living in Bohemia: The Garret, the Atelier, and the Phalanstère
	Hotel Corneille: “The Great Bohemian Resort”
	Bohemia and the Life of the Café
	Madame Busque’s
	The Bohemian Ball and the Demi-Monde
	Women in Bohemia: The Grisette
	Commercial Bohemia
	At the Café Concert
	Women in Bohemia: Mimi and Musette
	The Princess of Bohemia
	The Street
	‘Echo Chambers’: Paris and London
	Revolution
3 London Bohemia
	London’s Underground Bohemia
	Fictions of London Bohemia
	Bagot’s Youth and the Bohemian ‘Comic Epoch’
	‘Philosophers of the Cyder Cellar’: The Comic Epoch Onstage
	Gavarni in London: Anglicising a Parisian Bohemian
	Bohemian Slumming in London
	The Birth of a Bohemia on Fleet Street
	The Bohemian Symposium: Table Talk and Bohemian Print Culture
	Anglicising the Bohemienne
	Therese Desprez and the Foreignness of the Bohemienne
	Brough and the Bohemian Girl
	Fast London
	Camaralzaman and Badoura
	Anglicising the Grisette and the Bohemienne in Fast London
	London Bohemia and the Carnival
	The Women in West End Bohemia
	Mary Braddon: An Undercover Bohemienne in London
	Friends of Bohemia and the Politics of Bohemian Clubland
	The Governing Classes
	Savages and Tumblers in Clubland: The Idler versus the Train
	Upper and Lower Bohemia in Bagot’s Youth and Marston Lynch
	Bohemia Petraea
	Suffering in Lower Bohemia
	Lotus-Eating in Upper Bohemia
	The Limits of Bohemia
	Forty Thieves and London Bohemia’s Apotheosis: From the Shadows into the Spotlight
	Seeking the Patronage of Anti-Bohemia
4 New York Bohemia
	Transatlantic Bohemianism: The Lanternites and the “Cross of Cockney Blood”
	The Bohemian Press
	The Physiology of New York Boarding Houses
	“Slaves of the Lamp”
	The Oyster Critics
	The Ornithorhynchus Club
	The New World and the Infinite Republic
	Suicide in Bohemia
	A Bohemian Utopia
	The Boarding House: Low Living and High Thinking
	‘Free Love’ and Bohemia
	Young New York: Bohemianism on Broadway
	Proclaiming New York Bohemia
	Harper’s ‘Bohemien’
	‘At Pfaff’s’
	The Capital of Bohemia and the Magic Circle
	The Independent Organ of Bohemia
	Portraits of Paris and London
	The New York Leader
	Bohemiana
	“Pretty Modern Literary Women”
	A Bohemian Civil War
	The Bohemian Brigade
	Death and Desertion
5 Melbourne Bohemia
	A City of Gold and a Penal Colony: Bohemian Visions of Australia
	“You Would Lead the Colony—You Would Create a Better Ireland There—You Would Become Rich …”
	London’s Bohemian Legacy
	Colonial Networks and Cultural Transfer
	Reinventing Fast London
	Reinventing the West End
	A Bohemian University Student
	Brough and Australia’s “Bohemian demi-monde”
	The Ghosts of Bohemia
	Colonial Print Culture: “Picturing Home”
	Writing Home
	The Melbourne Press: Where “Literature Takes Its Proper Rank”
	Arriving at Austin Friars
	Bohemian Café Culture in Bourke Street
	The Yorick Club: Native Companions and Savages
	Upper Bohemia Down Under
	A Bohemian Reader
	Marcus Clarke’s Library
	Lower Bohemia Down Under
	The Gypsies of the Sea
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index