This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or…mehr
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.
Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance. François Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.
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Table of contents
Klaus Benesch and François Specq
Modern(s) Walking: An Introduction
Part I. Poetics
Emmanuelle Peraldo
Walking the streets of London in the eighteenth century: a performative art?
Juliette Fabre.
Musing, Painting & Writing: Walking as an Art in Diderot's Promenade Vernet
(Salon de 1767)
Estelle Murail
"Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports": Baudelaire and De Quincey's flâneurs
Thomas Pughe
How Poetry Comes to Him: An Excursion to Gary Snyder's Wild Poetics
Lacy Rumsey
Revisiting the American "walk poem": A.R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams
Part II. Performance
Isabelle Baudino
Marianne Colston's Art of Walking: Gendering the Picturesque in Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy
Bridget Sheridan
Following Footprints: photography, writing and the artist's book in art walking
Gabrielle Finnane
Wayfaring in the Megacity: Tsai Ming Liang's Walker and Lav Diaz's Melancholia
Tatiana Pogossian
The Art of Walking in Space and Time:
the Quest for London
Andrew Goodman
Walking with the world: towards an ecological approach to performative art practice
Part III. Pathology
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey's Autobiographical Works: The Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering
Sarah Mombert
Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins and Charlotte Brontë
Catherine M. Welter
A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force
in R.L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Amélie Moisy
Thomas Wolfe and the urban night prowl: walking, modernism and myth
Sophie Walon
Existential wanderings in Gus Van Sant's "Walking Trilogy": Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days
Part IV. Politics
Julien Nègre
Perambulating the village: Henry David Thoreau and the politics of "Walking"
Virginia Ricard
Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton's "The Look of Paris"
Andrew S. Gross
Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic
Marie Mianowski
The art of the 'good step' in Colm Tóibín's Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987)
Andrew Estes
Walking and Technology in the Fiction of Jennifer Egan: Moving towards the Posthuman
