Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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 -- Bohemia and "Myriad Rushing Broadway" -- From Reform to Bohemia -- The Bohemian and the Sunday Papers -- The Bohemian "Cosmopolite" and the "Narrow-Minded" Bourgeois -- Whitman: American and Bohemian -- New York and Boston -- "The Gypsies Are All Gone" -- 2 - Bret Harte, Urban Spectatorship, and the Bohemian West -- The Flâneur, the Spectator, and the Bohemian -- "The Bohemian at the Fair" -- Bohemia and "the Mingling of Public and Domestic Economy" -- Bohemia, the Mexican Quarter, and Chinatown -- Bohemia and the Literary 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 Bohème in Fiction, City Sketches, and Memoir -- This Was Bohemia! -- Wealth and Poverty -- Propriety and License -- Europe and America -- Art and Life -- 4 - The Bohemian Grove and the Making of the Bourgeois-Bohemian -- Bohemian Versus Bourgeois -- Bohemian Nervousness -- The Children of Bohemia -- The Bohemian Artist -- The Bohemian Grove -- The Bohemian Unconscious -- The Bohemian Octopus -- 5 - Regional Bohemias -- Bohemia and Arcadia -- Regional Bohemians -- New Women and the "Borders of Bohemia" -- Region and "the Significance of the Term Bohemian" -- 6 - Cosmopolitan Bohemias -- The Old World in the New -- "The Cosmopolitan Bohemian Democracy" and The American Scene -- Frank Norris and Imperial Bohemianism -- The East Side Bohème -- Black Bohemia -- Coda: Living in Bohemia -- 7 - The Spiritual Geography of Greenwich Village, 1912-1920 -- The Eastern and Southern Borders: The Old World Bohemia and Artistic Temperament.

The Western Border: The IWW and the Class Struggle -- The Northern Border: The Feminist Movement and "Sex Antagonism" -- Spiritual and Commercial Geographies -- Coda: Bohemian and Bourgeois -- Reference Matter -- Index.