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