Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film by Isabel Vila-Cabanes, Knut Brynhildsvoll, Ana Paula Cardozo de Souza, Cristina Carluccio, Daniel Chukwuemeka, Lea Herrmann, Berit Hummel, Viorella Manolache, Eva Katharina Ries, Cecile Sandten, Ina Schabert, Farida Youssef, Oliver Bock, Isabel Vila-Cabanes

Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film

Edited by: Oliver Bock (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany) and Isabel Vila-Cabanes (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)

By: Isabel Vila-Cabanes (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany), Knut Brynhildsvoll (University of Oslo, Norway), Ana Paula Cardozo de Souza (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Cristina Carluccio (University of Salento, Italy), Daniel Chukwuemeka (University of Bristol; Macquarie University), Lea Herrmann (ENS Lyon, France), and Berit Hummel (TU Berlin, Germany)

" [...] the range of the contributions also suggests that the flâneur continues to inspire robust research in many disciplines within the humanities. The conference volume thus contributes to the further diversification of flâneurial scholarship. It simultaneously gestures towards the still unfinished expansion of the figure beyond the centers of Western urbanity and into post-classical forms: such alternative iterations of the flâneur may, for instance, diverge from their predecessor's long-criticized status as a white, middle class, masculine subject of leisure in terms of their gendering, racialization, or class affiliation."

[Extracted from the review on the book appearing at the journal 'Anglistik' 31:3 (2020), Universitätsverlag WINTER Heidelberg. Reviewer: Chris Katzenberg (Universität Bochum, Germany)]

" [...] Flânerie is a concept and a creative practice that this volume does well to recognize and explore. [...]"

[Extracted from the review on the book appearing at the journal 'Modern Language Review'. Volume 116, Part 1. January 2021. Reviewer: Rob Stone (University of Birmingham)]