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Feeling modern : the eccentricities of public life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nieland, Justus
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Social history > 20th century.
Eccentrics and eccentricities.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Eccentric feeling
  • Tough crowds
  • Eccentric types
  • Kumraderie
  • Light figures
  • Tenderness
  • Dead pan
  • The passion to be a person
  • Epilogue: Charlie Chaplin and the revenge of the eccentric.