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Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity

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    Chapter 1 Walking the Streets of London in the Eighteenth Century: A Performative Art?
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    Chapter 2 Musing, Painting, and Writing: Walking as an Art in Diderot’s Promenade Vernet (Salon de 1767)
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    Chapter 3 “Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports”: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs
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    Chapter 4 How Poetry Comes to Him: An Excursion to Gary Snyder’s Wild Poetics
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    Chapter 5 Revisiting the American “Walk Poem”: A.R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams
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    Chapter 6 Marianne Colston’s Art of Walking: Gendering the Picturesque in Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy
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    Chapter 7 Following Footprints: Photography, Writing, and the Artist’s Book in Art Walking
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    Chapter 8 Wayfaring in the Megacity: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker and Lav Diaz’s Melancholia
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    Chapter 9 The Art of Walking in Space and Time: The Quest for London
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    Chapter 10 Walking with the World: Toward an Ecological Approach to Performative Art Practice
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    Chapter 11 The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: The Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering
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    Chapter 12 Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins, and Charlotte Brontë
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    Chapter 13 A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force in R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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    Chapter 14 Thomas Wolfe and the Urban Night Prowl: Walking, Modernism, and Myth
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    Chapter 15 Existential Wanderings in Gus Van Sant’s “Walking Trilogy”: Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days
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    Chapter 16 Perambulating the Village: Henry David Thoreau and the Politics of “Walking”
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    Chapter 17 Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton’s “The Look of Paris”
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    Chapter 18 Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic
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    Chapter 19 The Art of the “Good Step” in Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987)
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    Chapter 20 Walking and Technology in the Fiction of Jennifer Egan: Moving toward the Posthuman
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Title
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan US, January 2016
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7
ISBNs
978-1-137-60282-4, 978-1-137-60364-7
Editors

Klaus Benesch, François Specq

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Country Count As %
Unknown 13 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 38%
Unspecified 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 4 31%
Social Sciences 3 23%
Unspecified 1 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 8%
Engineering 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 23%