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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2016

ISBN (Hardback): 9781137602824

Full citation:

Klaus Benesch, François Specq (eds), Walking and the aesthetics of modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Walking and the aesthetics of modernity

Contents

Musing, painting, and writing

walking as an art in Diderot's promenade vernet (salon de 1767)

Juliette Fabre

15-28

How poetry comes to him

an excursion to Gary Snyder's wild poetics

Thomas Pughe

43-61

Revisiting the American "walk poem"

A. R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams

Lacy Rumsey

63-81

Marianne Colston's art of walking

gendering the picturesque in journal of a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy

Isabelle Baudino

85-98

Following footprints

photography, writing, and the artist's book in art walking

Bridget Sheridan

99-114

Wayfaring in the megacity

Tsai Ming-liang's Walker and Lav Diaz's Melancholia

Gabrielle Finnane

115-127

Walking with the world

toward an ecological approach to performative art practice

Andrew Goodman

141-154

Writing dromomania in the romantic era

Nerval, Collins, and Charlotte Brontë

Sarah Mombert

173-185

A juggernaut in the Streets of London

walking as destructive force in R. L. Stevenson's Strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde

Catherine M. Welter

187-196

Thomas Wolfe and the urban night prowl

walking, modernism, and myth

Amélie Moisy

197-211

Perambulating the village

Henry David Thoreau and the politics of "walking"

Julien Nègre

229-240

Walking in wartime

Edith Wharton's "The look of Paris"

Virginia Ricard

241-252