"The growth of female reading audiences from the mid eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women's history and a highly significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. This book offers for the first time a board ov…
"The growth of female reading audiences from the mid eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women's history and a highly significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. This book offers for the first time a board ove…
"Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking 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 cultu…
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.
"Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking 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 cultu…
Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb Pierce Egan, and Dickens.
Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb Pierce Egan, and Dickens.
En este ambicioso trabajo, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak disecciona la compleja articulación de la experiencia colonial en el corazón de las mismas disciplinas que han conformado la modernidad occidental, demostrando que la filosofía, la literatura, la historia y la cultura occiden…
