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Article: Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2007
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Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By Mary Gluck. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 224. $35.00.)
Commercialization has become, it seems, the new grand narrative of modernity, replacing class and even classic capitalism. It plays a key role in this author's account of bohemia, but with a new twist. Rather than bohemia being a reaction against modernity, as it has often been portrayed, for Mary Gluck it was "a discursive configuration where the preconditions of avant-garde art and identity were forged" (9). It was therefore, in certain of its forms, entirely compatible with the rapid changes and the ...