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The Flâneur abroad : historical and international perspectives /

This volume offers new perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history - the flâneur. Recent writing on the flâneur has given little sustained attention to the widespread adaptation of the flâneur outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the fo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wrigley, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "This publick sort of obscurity" : the origins of the flâneur in London and Paris, 1660-1780 / Jonathan Conlin
  • Chapter 2. Did the flâneur exist? A Parisian overview / Laurent Turcot
  • Chapter 3. Promenades in Enlightenment Madrid : the tapestry cartoons and new social spaces / Simon Lee
  • Chapter 4. Early forms of flânerie in the German journal London und Paris (1798-1815) / Christian Deuling
  • Chapter 5. Flâneurs, commodities, and the working body in Louis Huart's Physiologie du flâneur and Albert Smith's Natural history of the idler upon town / Jo Briggs
  • Chapter 6. A patchwork of effects : notions of walking, sociability, and the flâneur in late nineteenth-century Madrid / Vanesa Rodriguez-Galindo
  • Chapter 7. The phantasmagoria of the city : Gogol's and Sadovnikov's Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg / Tatiana Senkevitch
  • Chapter 8. Flâneurs, monsters, madmen and wanderers : the functions of anxious flânerie in Andrei Bely's Petersburg / Claire Gheerardyn
  • Chapter 9. Roving anarchist flâneurs : the visual politics of popular protest via Parisian street art in L'assiette au beurre (1900-1914) / Kevin C. Robbins
  • Chapter 10. Henri Béraud's flâneur salarié abroad in Ireland / Oliver O'Hanlon
  • Chapter 11. Arcades and loggias : Walter Benjamin's flâneur in Paris and Berlin / Kathrin Yacavone
  • Chapter 12. Prague flânerie from Neruda to Nezval / Karla Huebner
  • Chapter 13. The flâneur in the fog : phenomenologies of the northern port-town landscape in the peripatetic narratives of French existentialism / Alexander McCabe
  • Chapter 14. The flâneur in Brussels : French and Belgian literary perspectives in counterpoint / Daniel Acke
  • Chapter 15. Underground, overground, wandering free : flânerie reimagined in print, on screen and on record / Kevin Milburn
  • Chapter 16. The subject of Chantal Akerman's News from home (1977) : on the political potential of the cinematic flâneur / James Harvey-Davitt.