The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented social restructuring that disrupted traditional notions of people and place, country and city, private and pub

Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the gaze i

"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America.

The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary pano