Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity

Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking the Metropolis, an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity in which Deborah Parsons re-draws the gendered map of urban modernism. Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the flaneur, the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion of a female 'flaneuse, ' focused around a range of women writers from the 1880's to World War Two, including Amy Levy, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing.

Author: Deborah L. Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/20/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.54w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780198186830

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