Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. 1. The Historical Bohemian and the Discourse of Modernism 1
5. 2. The Romantic Bohemian and the Performance of Melodrama 24
6. 3. The Flâneur and the Phantasmagoria of the Modern City 65
7. 4. The Decadent and the Culture of Hysteria 108
8. 5. The Primitivist Artist and the Discourse of Exoticism 165
9. Notes 189
10. Index 217