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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Elkin, Lauren, author.
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Chatto & Windus, |
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2016. |
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317 pages : |
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0701189029 |
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1 copy available at University of Alberta - Rutherford Library.
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| HQ 1150 E45 2016 |
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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Elkin, Lauren, author.
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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Elkin, Lauren, author.
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Elkin, Lauren, author.
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Title:
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Flâneuse : women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London / Lauren Elkin.
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Publication:
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London : Chatto & Windus, 2016.
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Copyright date:
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©2016
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Physical description:
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317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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text txt
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unmediated n
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Personal subject:
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Elkin, Lauren--Travel.
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Subject term:
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Women authors--Homes and haunts.
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Subject term:
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Women artists--Homes and haunts.
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Subject term:
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City and town life.
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Subject term:
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Flaneurs--History.
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General Note:
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"As read in BBC Radio 4"--Cover.
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-298).
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Summary:
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Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own life, a journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film women's sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.
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ISBN:
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0701189029
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ISBN:
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9780701189020
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7559222
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