The Flâneur’s Scopic Power or the Victorian Dream of Transparency

This article focuses on the dream of transparency which pervaded the nineteenth-century literary cityscape, and which, I argue, is embodied in the figure of the flâneur, the ubiquitous observer of urban life. To shed light on the function and makeup of this enigmatic figure, I analyze the flâneur th...

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Main Author: Estelle Murail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/252
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