Table of Contents

I: The Social and Literary Origins of Bohemia; The Ideological Significance of Bohemian Life; Bohemia as a Means of Social Regulation; The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Original Preface, 1850; Literary Beginnings; Murger's La Vie de Bohème; The Parisian Prototype; Art and Society: A Marxist View; A New Theory of Bohemians; Bohemia: The Underworld of Art; Bohemia and Anti-Bohemia in Art; The Uses of History; The Diogenes Style; The Bohemian as a Social Personality Type; The Greenwich Village Idea; Towertown: Chicago's Bohemia; Disaffection in England: the Outsider; The Social Role of the Literary Elite; The Idea of Bohemia in Mid-Victorian England; Bohemia: Its Ideology and Control; The Upper Bohemians; The White Negro; The Origins of the Beat Generation; The Beat Mystique; San Francisco's Mature Bohemians; Beaten; On the Beat Nature of Beat; The Know-Nothing Bohemians; The Flowering of the Hippie Movement; II: The Testimony of Bohemia; The Canons of Bohemia; The Glory of the Senses; The Message of Bohemia; The Grisette; The Female Reformed: Henrietta Rodman's Mädchen; Decor for a Bohemian Studio; Making Bohemia Safe for America; The Trilby Craze: Bohemia for All; The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy; Zen in Venice; The Greening of a NATO General; 2: A Troubled Dream; Bohemia; Bohemia as It Is Not; In Quest of Bohemia; False Gypsies; The Supreme Literary Illusion and Why It Persists; A Pustule on the Organism of Paris; A Place of Fear; Disenchanted Abroad; A Whiff of Chaos for the Bourgeoisie; Baiting the Bourgeois; The Red Waistcoat; Bouzingos and Jeunes-France; Initiation at the Studio; Art Takes to the Streets: The Quat 'z' Arts Ball, 1893; Le Lapin Agile: Salon of the Avant-Garde; Upper Bohemia: Oxbridge and Chelsea; Professor Sea Gull; A Question of Survival; Selling Out; Invading Bohemia; Invading Bohemia; The Model; Hunger Was a Good Discipline; The Selling of the Village; Economics and the Art Colony; Literary Begging on the Left Bank; Rebellion Goes Commercial; Getting By and “Making It”; Getting By on 40 a Week; Making the Scene; The Cafés; The Sidewalk Café: Island and Outpost; The Café Procope; The Golden Sun; America's First Bohemians: Pfaff's Crowd; Looking for Bohemia in London; London's Café Royal; The Viennese Kaffeehaus: Refuge from Angst and Reality; Bohemian Pastorale: The Old Latin Quartier; Rural Bohemia: Carmel, 1900s; An Artists’ Colony in Stockholm; Aue's Keller: The Bohemian Café of Buenos Aires; A Semester in Berlin, 1900; Patroness of Rebellion: Mabel Dodge's “Evenings”; Passing Through L.A; Chez Marcel: Johannesburg, 1950; Bohemia East: ’Sixties London; Bivouac in the Piazza di Spagna; The Tender Termites: The New International Beatnikry in Paris; Making the Scene; The Figaro; Hippi at the Café Aramat; L’Art pour l’Art; The Peacock Feather; The Dandy; The First Night of Hernani; UbuRoi, or Hernandi AU Over Again; Dinners of Bohemia, Ancient and Modern; Art for Art's Sake in England: A Left-Wing View; The Other Culture; Essentials of Spontaneous Prose; Belief & Technique for Modern Prose; East Village Symphoneous; The Social Lie; Bohemianism in French Politics; Bohemia Betrayed: Sellout to the Social Register; A Remembrance of the Red Romance; From Bohemia to Revolution; Bloomsbury: A Bohemia Seen through Marxist Eyes; The World as Dada Cabaret; Notes On Fascism and Bohemia; Politics and the Beat: Youth Disaffiliated from a Phony World; Beatniks And Bolsheviks; III: The Continuous Demise of Bohemia; The Fall of Greenwich Village; Bohemia—or Vulgaria; Is Feminine Bohemianism a Failure?; The New Bohemia; Greenwich Village Tombstone; The Revolution in Bohemia; What Happened to Bohemia?; The Death of Hip; A Strange and Lonely Land: North Beach, 1961; We Few, We Happy Few, We Happy Bohemians: A Memoir of the Culture Before the Counterculture; Bohemia NOW: The Protoculture; From Bohemia to the Avant-Garde: Dissolving the Boundaries

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Cesar Grana