Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I -- " Transplanted from the Mother Asphalt of Paris": Importing Bohemia, 1858 1870; 1 The "Vault at Pfaff 's": Whitman, Bohemia, and the Saturday Press; 2 Bret Harte, Urban Spectatorship, and the Bohemian West; Part II -- " I'd Rather Live in Bohemia Than Any Other Land": The Bohemian Vogue, 1870 1920; 3 "A Plot to Live Around": La Vie Bohme in Fiction, City Sketches, and Memoir; 4 The Bohemian Grove and the Making of the Bourgeois- Bohemian; 5 Regional Bohemias; 6 Cosmopolitan Bohemias; 7 The Spiritual Geography of Greenwich Village, 1912 1920
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Summary
American Bohemias explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture