Nicholas Freeman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640560
- eISBN:
- 9780748651399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640560.003.0028
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter describes the events that occurred from 1 September 1895–31 December 1895. It covers revolting ladies; welling up; silver and rubies; Trilbymania; Ave Satani!; far from dear father; exit ...
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This chapter describes the events that occurred from 1 September 1895–31 December 1895. It covers revolting ladies; welling up; silver and rubies; Trilbymania; Ave Satani!; far from dear father; exit Jabez; Jude the obscene; and an epidemic of indecency.Less
This chapter describes the events that occurred from 1 September 1895–31 December 1895. It covers revolting ladies; welling up; silver and rubies; Trilbymania; Ave Satani!; far from dear father; exit Jabez; Jude the obscene; and an epidemic of indecency.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804760836
- eISBN:
- 9780804772549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804760836.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter examines the stock Bohemian settings and plots in American literature and art. It explores how novels, dramas, and city sketches recycled and recontextualized Henri Murger's Scenes, ...
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This chapter examines the stock Bohemian settings and plots in American literature and art. It explores how novels, dramas, and city sketches recycled and recontextualized Henri Murger's Scenes, which culminated in the “Trilbymania” of the 1890s and the revival of Murger in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, performed for the first time in New York in 1898. All of these narratives imply that living in Bohemia is like living with the utmost intensity and spirit. Moreover, they reveal the different social conflicts that “Bohemia” continued to chart and negotiate: Bohemian plots often deal with overlapping tensions between artists and “Philistines,” propriety and license, wealth and poverty, men and women, art and life, “feminine Bohemianism” and traditional womanhood, and America and Europe. The chapter highlights these conflicts and analyzes canonical texts such as Henry James's The Ambassadors (1903), along with numerous stories, sketches, and popular novels.Less
This chapter examines the stock Bohemian settings and plots in American literature and art. It explores how novels, dramas, and city sketches recycled and recontextualized Henri Murger's Scenes, which culminated in the “Trilbymania” of the 1890s and the revival of Murger in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, performed for the first time in New York in 1898. All of these narratives imply that living in Bohemia is like living with the utmost intensity and spirit. Moreover, they reveal the different social conflicts that “Bohemia” continued to chart and negotiate: Bohemian plots often deal with overlapping tensions between artists and “Philistines,” propriety and license, wealth and poverty, men and women, art and life, “feminine Bohemianism” and traditional womanhood, and America and Europe. The chapter highlights these conflicts and analyzes canonical texts such as Henry James's The Ambassadors (1903), along with numerous stories, sketches, and popular novels.
