Streetwalking the Metropolis
Women, the City and Modernity
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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Named as Outstanding Academic Book of 2001 by Choice
Streetwalking the Metropolis makes an important contribution to ongoing debates on gender, the city and modernity. Re-drawing the gendered map of urban modernism, it offers stimulating accounts of a range of writers including Amy Levy, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann. Jean Rhys, Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing.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 1880s to World War Two. Cutting across period boundaries, this wide-ranging study offers stimulating accounts of works by writers including Amy Levy, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann, Jean Rhys, Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, 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.
This book makes a fascinating contribution to work on modernity and female urban experience, particularly in its examination of the correlations between the authors' own experiences of metropolitan and cosmopolitan life and the 'feminist revisioning' of the city their writing sought to achieve. * Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory *
A theoretically rigorous and intellectually demanding study ... makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about female urbanism and women's representations of the city ... detailed and original readings of the text. * Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory *
The immense scope of Parson's study proves beyond a doubt that the figure of the flâneuse is not only imaginable, but quite easy to spot in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
Streetwalking the Metropolis is a convincing and assured performance. * Sean Matthews, Times Higher Education Supplement *
The book will find a readership not only among specialists across the relevant disciplines, but also among students and general readers eager to explore alternatives to the traditional Pound-Eliot-Joyce axis: that OUP has published both hard and paperback editions testifies to this broad appeal. * Sean Matthews, Times Higher Education Supplement *
This is a fascinating, meticulous, needling book ... Her view of the history of twentieth-century feminist writing is positive and forward-looking ... compelling book. * Sue Roe, Times Literary Supplement *
- Winner of Named as Outstanding Academic Book of 2001 by Choice.
ISBN: 9780198186830
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm
Weight: 311g
256 pages