Bohemian Republic

James Gatheral is a scholar of nineteenth century literature and popular culture. He is currently investigating the world of cultural Bohemia, the nineteenth century’s most notorious subculture.

• Chapter 1 The Bohemian Republic: An Introduction The Bohemian and the Bohémien Timelines New Perspectives on Bohemia Borders, Mobilities, and Networks ScopeChapter 2 Paris and the Birth of Bohemia La bohème littéraire et la Petite Presse Scènes de la vie de bohème Communal Living in Bohemia: the Garret, the Atelier, and the Phalanstère Hotel Corneille: "The Great Bohemian Resort" Bohemia and the Life of the Café Madame Busque’s The Bohemian Ball and the Demi-Monde Women in Bohemia: The Grisette Commercial Bohemia At the Café Concert Women in Bohemia: Mimi and Musette The Princess of Bohemia The Street ‘Echo Chambers’: Paris and London RevolutionChapter 3 London Bohemia London’s Underground Bohemia Fictions of London Bohemia Bagot’s Youth and the Bohemian ‘Comic Epoch’ ‘Philosophers of the Cyder Cellar’: the Comic Epoch Onstage Gavarni in London: Anglicising a Parisian Bohemian Bohemian Slumming in London The Birth of a Bohemia on Fleet Street The Bohemian Symposium: Table Talk and Bohemian Print Culture Anglicising the Bohemienne Therese Desprez and the Foreignness of the Bohemienne Brough and the Bohemian Girl Fast London Camaralzaman and Badoura Anglicising the Grisette and the Bohemienne in Fast London London Bohemia and the Carnival The Women in West End Bohemia Mary Braddon: An Undercover Bohemienne in London Friends of Bohemia and the Politics of Bohemian Clubland The Governing Classes Savages and Tumblers in Clubland: The Idler versus The Train Upper and Lower Bohemia in Bagot’s Youth and Marston Lynch Bohemia Petraea Suffering in Lower Bohemia Lotus-Eating in Upper Bohemia The Limits of Bohemia Forty Thieves and London Bohemia’s Apotheosis: From the Shadows into the Spotlight Seeking the patronage of Anti-BohemiaChapter 4 New York Bohemia Transatlantic Bohemianism: The Lanternites and the "cross of cockney blood" The Bohemian Press The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses "Slaves of the Lamp" The Oyster Critics The Ornithorhynchus Club The New World and the Infinite Republic Suicide in Bohemia A Bohemian Utopia The Boarding-house: Low Living and High Thinking ‘Free Love’ and Bohemia Young New York: Bohemianism on Broadway Proclaiming New York Bohemia Harper’s ‘Bohemien’ ‘At Pfaff’s’ The Capital of Bohemia and the Magic Circle The Independent Organ of Bohemia Portraits of Paris and London The New York Leader Bohemiana "Pretty modern literary women" A Bohemian Civil War The Bohemian Brigade Death and DesertionChapter 5 Melbourne Bohemia A City of Gold and a Penal Colony: Bohemian Visions of Australia "You would lead the colony—you would create a better Ireland there—you would become rich …" London’s Bohemian Legacy Colonial Networks and Cultural Transfer Reinventing Fast London Reinventing the West End A Bohemian University Student Brough and Australia’s "Bohemian demi-monde" The Ghosts of Bohemia Colonial Print Culture: "Picturing Home" Writing Home The Melbourne Press: Where "literature takes its proper rank" Arriving at Austin Friars Bohemian Café Culture in Bourke Street The Yorick Club: Native Companions and Savages Upper Bohemia Down Under A Bohemian Reader Marcus Clarke’s Library Lower Bohemia Down Under The Gypsies of the SeaChapter 6 Conclusion