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Bohemia in London : The Social Scene of Early Modernism /

This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois society. It renews once more the complexities...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooker, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This original study discovers the bourgeois in the modernist and the dissenting style of Bohemia in the new artistic movements of the 1910s. Brooker sees the bohemian as the example of the modern artist, at odds with but defined by the codes of bourgeois society. It renews once more the complexities and radicalism of the modernist challenge.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 210 pages)
ISBN:9780230288096
DOI:10.1057/9780230288096