Deborah L Parsons

Streetwalking the Metropolis

Women, the City, and Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing, highlighting women's changing relationship with the social and psychic spaces of the city, and drawing attention to the ways in which the perceptions and experiences of the street are translated into the dynamics of literary texts.

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186823
• ISBN-10: 0198186827
• Artikelnr.: 22093445

Autorenporträt

Lecturer in English Literature, University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mythologies of Modernity
Woman of the Crowd
The New Woman and the Wandering Jew
On the Margins of the City
The Cosmopolitan and the Rag-picker
Wandering the London Wasteland
Re-envisioning the Urban Walker