The flaneur in nineteenth-century British literary culture : "the worlds of London unknown" /
The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth-century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scho...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Summary: | The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth-century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scholarly studies, analyses about the nineteenth-century British analogue are often fragmentary, appearing in the form of isolated articles. However, there is an abundant amount of nineteenth-century novels, sketches and journalistic essays which offer remarkable and hitherto overlooked accounts of the British metropolis, and which frequently include the gifure of the flaneur as a central character or the topic of flanerie as a theme. |
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| Physical Description: | 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1527516202 9781527516205 |