Streetwalking the Metropolis Women, the City, and Modernity
, by Parsons, Deborah L.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198186830 | 0198186835
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/20/2000
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.