
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
pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts
Edited by
Klaus Benesch, François Specq
Palgrave Macmillan
2016
Abstract
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.
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