Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. “ Transplanted from the Mother Asphalt of Paris”: Importing Bohemia, 1858– 1870
6. 1. The “Vault at Pfaff ’s”: Whitman, Bohemia, and the Saturday Press 13
7. 2. Bret Harte, Urban Spectatorship, and the Bohemian West 70
8. Part II. “ I’d Rather Live in Bohemia Than Any Other Land”: The Bohemian Vogue, 1870– 1920
9. 3. “A Plot to Live Around”: La Vie Bohème in Fiction, City Sketches, and Memoir 125
10. 4. The Bohemian Grove and the Making of the Bourgeois- Bohemian 197
11. 5. Regional Bohemias 243
12. 6. Cosmopolitan Bohemias 285
13. 7. The Spiritual Geography of Greenwich Village, 1912– 1920 339
14. Notes 395
15. Index 457