The Flâneur abroad : historical and international perspectives / edited by Richard Wrigley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wrigley, Richard, editor.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flaneurs in literature--Congresses.

Flaneurs in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This volume offers new perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history - the flâneur. Recent writing on the flâneur has given little sustained attention to the widespread adaptation of the flâneur outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the form of historic antecedents, modern sequels, or contemporary echoes. Yet it is clear that the allure of the flâneur's persona has led to its translation and adoption far beyond Parisian boulevards and passages, and this in different media and literary genres. This volume maps some of the flâneur's travels and transpositions. How far the flâneur is dependent on Paris as a milieu is opened up for questioning: for all the international dispersal of this idea and model, in some sense Paris is always present, if only as a reference to kick against or replace. When modern flâneurs step out in foreign cities, how much of a Parisian ethos clings to them, however they might claim independence? Cities which provide counterpoints to Paris discussed here are Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Le Havre, London, Madrid, New York, Prague, and St Petersburg. This internationalised view also reconsiders the nature of the flâneur, and revises stereotypes based on Walter Benjamin's account of Baudelaire. Another key feature is the chapters which analyse the flâneur in terms of visual representations, whether graphic illustration, streetscapes, urban design, cinema, or album covers (related to musical examples from the 1950s to the present). Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "This Publick Sort of Obscurity": The Origins of the Flâneur in London and Paris, 1660-1780 / Jonathan Conlin Conlin, Jonathan 14

Chapter 2 Did the Flâneur Exist? A Parisian Overview / Laurent Turcot Turcot, Laurent 40

Chapter 3 Promenades in Enlightenment Madrid: The Tapestry Cartoons and New Social Spaces / Simon Lee Lee, Simon 66

Chapter 4 Early Forms of Flânerie in the German Journal London und Paris (1798-1815) / Christian Deuling Deuling, Christian 94

Chapter 5 Flâneurs, Commodities, and the Working Body in Louis Huart's Physiologle du flâneur and Albert Smith's Natural History of the Idler upon Town / Jo Briggs Briggs, Jo 117

Chapter 6 A Patchwork of Effects: Notions of Walking, Sociability, and the Flaneur in Late Nineteenth-Century Madrid / Vanesa Rodriguez-Galindo Rodriguez-Galindo, Vanesa 142

Chapter 7 The Phantasmagoria of the City: Gogol's and Sadovnikov's Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg / Tatiana Senkevitch Senkevitch, Tatiana 166

Chapter 8 Flâneurs, Monsters, Madmen and Wanderers: The Functions of Anxious Flânerie in Andrei Bely's Petersburg / Claire Gheerardyn Gheerardyn, Claire 205

Chapter 9 Roving Anarchist Flâneurs: The Visual Politics of Popular Protest via Parisian Street Art in L 'Assierte au beurre (1900-1914) / Kevin C. Robbins Robbins, Kevin C. 223

Chapter 10 Henri Béraud's flâneur salarié Abroad in Ireland / Oliver O'Hanlon O'Hanlon, Oliver 256

Chapter 11 Arcades and Loggias: Walter Benjamin's Flâneur in Paris and Berlin / Kathrin Yacavone Yacavone, Kathrin 269

Chapter 12 Prague Flânerie from Neruda to Nezval / Karla Huebner Huebner, Karla 281

Chapter 13 The Flâneur in the Fog: Phenomenologies of the Northern Port-Town Landscape in the Peripatetic Narratives of French Existentialism / Alexander McCabe McCabe, Alexander 298

Chapter 14 The Flâneur in Brussels: French and Belgian Literary Perspectives in Counterpoint / Daniel Acke Acke, Daniel 307

Chapter 15 Underground, Overground, Wandering Free: Flanerie Reimagined in Print, on Screen and on Record / Kevin Milburn Milburn, Kevin 325

Chapter 16 The Subject of Chantal Akerman's News from Home (1977): On the Political Potential of the Cinematic Flâneur / James Harvey-Davitt Harvey-Davitt, James 342.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1443860166

9781443860161

OCLC:

881865272

Publisher Number:

99963027090