This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and social life. In rethinking the figure of the flaneur, the contributors apply the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of the period, including painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, and posters. Using a variety of approaches, the collection re-examines the long-held belief that life in Paris was divided according to strict gender norms, with men free to roam in public space while women were restricted to the privacy of the domestic sphere. Framed by essays by Janet Wolff and Linda Nochlin - two scholars whose work has been central to the investigation of gender and representation in the nineteenth century - this collection brings together new methods of looking at visual culture with a more nuanced way of picturing city life. -- .
Edited by:
Aruna D'Souza,
Tom McDonough
Series edited by:
Marsha Meskimmon,
Shearer West,
Tim Barringer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9780719079429
ISBN 10: 071907942X
Series: Critical Perspectives in Art History
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Contributors List of Illustrations 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 Select Bibliography -- .
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
Reviews for The Invisible FlâNeuse?: Gender, Public Space and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris
''Scholars of art history, the social sciences, and gender studies will find much that is useful in this volume due to its reinvestigation of the issue of the presence--both imaginative and material--of the flaneuse in Parisian society. --Therese Dolan, Professor of Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University 'Scholars of art history, the social sciences, and gender studies will find much that is useful in this volume due to its reinvestigation of the issue of the presence--both imaginative and material--of the flaneuse in Parisian society. --Therese Dolan, Professor of Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
