Streetwalking the Metropolis

• The book offers an interdisciplinary account of the modern city, situating a literary focus within cultural, feminist and geographical discourse.
• It attempts to assess the relative, rather than simply comparative, experience of men and women in the city and to provide a clear and accessible account of literary-urban debate for a wide audience.
• In particular it counters the dismissal of a putative 'flâneuse' by previous studies in the field.

Readership: Students and academics of Literature, Cultural Studies, History, Urban Studies, Women's Studies. General readers with an interest in women's writing and/or the city.

Deborah L. Parsons, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Birmingham

"This book makes a fascinating contribution to work on modernity and female urban experience, particularly in its examination of the correlations between the authors' own experiences of metropolitan and cosmopolitan life and the 'feminist revisioning' of the city their writing sought to achieve." - Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory

"A theoretically rigorous and intellectually demanding study ... makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about female urbanism and women's representations of the city ... detailed and original readings of the text." - Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory

"The immense scope of Parson's study proves beyond a doubt that the figure of the flâneuse is not only imaginable, but quite easy to spot in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature." - Nineteenth-Century French Studies

"Streetwalking the Metropolis is a convincing and assured performance." - Sean Matthews, Times Higher Education Supplement

"The book will find a readership not only among specialists across the relevant disciplines, but also among students and general readers eager to explore alternatives to the traditional Pound-Eliot-Joyce axis: that OUP has published both hard and paperback editions testifies to this broad appeal." - Sean Matthews, Times Higher Education Supplement

"This is a fascinating, meticulous, needling book ... Her view of the history of twentieth-century feminist writing is positive and forward-looking ... compelling book." - Sue Roe, Times Literary Supplement

Introduction
Mythologies of Modernity
Woman of the Crowd
The New Woman and the Wandering Jew
On the Margins of the City
The Cosmopolitan and the Rag-picker
Wandering the London Wasteland
Re-envisioning the Urban Walker