Literally, it was Thackeray who
introduced both the word and the concept of bohemia to England from Paris
As
a sort of reserve labor force and a semiporous, liminal space for vocational
sorting and social rising and falling, bohemia could seemingly be entered from
any social level; but, at least in these literary versions, it served best the
cultural needs, the fantasy needs, and the needs for positive and negative
self definition of an anxious and conflicted bourgeoisie
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