Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.(Book review) From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Garrioch, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By Mary Gluck. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 224. $35.00.)

Commercialization has become, it seems, the new grand narrative of modernity, replacing class and even classic capitalism. It plays a key role in this author's account of bohemia, but with a new twist. Rather than bohemia being a reaction against modernity, as it has often been portrayed, for Mary Gluck it was "...