CSP 7 Bohemias

What is Bohemia? Variously construed as a space, a style, a phase, and a form of subculture, the concept of Bohemianism captures images of rebellion, artistic production, urbanity, youth, altered states, and sexual experimentation. This course tracks the history of Bohemia and bohemians from their origins in nineteenth-century Paris, London, and Berlin to the twentieth-century United States. Tracking a cast of characters including hipsters, hippies, outcasts, queers, punks, pachuchas, starving artists, and beatniks, we will analyze historical writings, literature, music, and film while asking if the twenty-first century still has the time and place for bohemia.