Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts

Benesch, Klaus; Specq, François

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.   

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-09-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137602824

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 331