Streetalking the Metropolis Women, the City, and Modernity [Paperback]

Can there be aflaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question ofStreetwalking 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 theflaneur, 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 1880's to World War Two, including Amy Levy, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing.

Introduction
Mythologies of Modernity
Woman of the Crowd
The New Woman and the Wandering Jew
On the Margins of the City
The Cosmopolitan and the Rag-picker
Wandering the London Wasteland
Re-envisioning the Urban Walker