| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-298). |
| Summary |
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis. |
| Contents |
Flâneuse-ing -- Long Island: New York -- Paris: cafés where they -- London: Bloomsbury -- Paris: children of the revolution -- Venice: obedience -- Tokyo: inside -- Paris: protest -- Paris: neighbourhood -- Everywhere: the view from the ground -- New York: return -- Epilogue: Flâneuserie. |
| Subject |
Elkin, Lauren -- Travel.
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Women authors -- Homes and haunts.
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Women artists -- Homes and haunts.
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City and town life.
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Flaneurs -- History.
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HISTORY / Women.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
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TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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| ISBN |
9780374156046 (hardcover) |
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0374156042 (hardcover) |
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