Walking and the aesthetics of modernity

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2016

331 Pages

ISBN 978-1-137-60282-4

Walking and the aesthetics of modernity

pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts

Edited by

Klaus Benesch, François Specq

This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributorsdemonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.

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Full citation:

Benesch, K. , Specq, F. (eds) (2016). Walking and the aesthetics of modernity: pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Walking the Streets of London in the eighteenth century

Peraldo Emmanuelle

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