Bibliograph

Flâneuse, women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, Lauren Elkin

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Label

Flâneuse, women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, Lauren Elkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-298)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flâneuse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

946692853

Responsibility statement

Lauren Elkin

Sub title

women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

Summary

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk." Virginia Woolf called it "street haunting"; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany<U+2019>s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York

Table Of Contents

Flâneuse-ing -- Long Island: New York -- Paris: cafes where they -- London: Bloomsbury -- Paris: children of the revolution -- Venice: obedience -- Tokyo: inside -- Paris: protest -- Paris: neighbourhood -- Everywhere: the view from the ground -- New York: return -- Epilogue: flâneuserie

Target audience

adult

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