Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity

by Deborah L. Parsons

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198186823
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

IntroductionMythologies of ModernityWoman of the CrowdThe New Woman and the Wandering JewOn the Margins of the CityThe Cosmopolitan and the Rag-pickerWandering the London WastelandRe-envisioning the Urban Walker