Bohemia in America, 1858a 1920Bohemia in America, 1858 1920 explores the construction and emergence of Bohemia in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio economic landscape, la vie bohme traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the 1850s. At first the province of small artistic coteries, Bohemia soon inspired a popular vogue, embodied in restaurants, clubs, neighborhoods, novels, poems, and dramatic