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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
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1. Introduction: Aruna D’Souza and Tom McDonough
2. Gender and the Haunting of Cities (Or, The Retirement of the Flâneur): Janet Wolff
3. Women in Public: The Display of Femininity in the Parks of Paris: Greg M. Thomas
4. Dusting the Surface, or The Bourgeoisie, the Veil, and Haussmann’s Paris: Marni Kessler
5. Disorienting Orient: Duret and Guimet, Anxious Flâneurs in Asia: Ting Chang
6. TRANSCRYPTS: Some Notes Between Pricks: Simon Leung
7. Not the Flâneur Again: Reading Magazines and Living the Metropolis around 1880: Tom Gretton
8. The Flâneuse in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters: Advertising Images of Modern Women in Paris: Ruth E. Iskin
9. Why the Impressionists Never Painted the Department Store: Aruna D’Souza
10. City of Strangers: Tom McDonough
11. The Contemporary Flâneuse: Helen Scalway
12. Afterword: Linda Nochlin
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