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Informationen zum Autor Aruna D'Souza is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Tom McDonough is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York Klappentext This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France - painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters - resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flâneur. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flâneur. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ContributorsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: Aruna D'Souza and Tom McDonough2. Gender and the Haunting of Cities (Or, The Retirement of the Flâneur): Janet Wolff3. Women in Public: The Display of Femininity in the Parks of Paris: Greg M. Thomas4. Dusting the Surface, or The Bourgeoisie, the Veil, and Haussmann's Paris: Marni Kessler5. Disorienting Orient: Duret and Guimet, Anxious Flâneurs in Asia: Ting Chang6. TRANSCRYPTS: Some Notes Between Pricks: Simon Leung7. Not the Flâneur Again: Reading Magazines and Living the Metropolis around 1880: Tom Gretton8. The Flâneuse in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters: Advertising Images of Modern Women in Paris: Ruth E. Iskin9. Why the Impressionists Never Painted the Department Store: Aruna D'Souza10. City of Strangers: Tom McDonough11. The Contemporary Flâneuse: Helen Scalway 12. Afterword: Linda NochlinSelect Bibliography
