Bohemia-Bohemian-Bohème

Abstract

Chapter 10 explores the friction that makes and breaks the hyphens between Bohemia-Bohemian-Bohème. It begins and ends with the theological and secular winds that bring Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale into deliberately enigmatic representations of la vie de bohème. A seascape helps then to remake a rural landscape into a cityscape of Paris in its embattled to-and-fro with London. With walking and wandering always at stake, the chapter investigates the many strains of wit in the painting of shoes.