| Walking and the French Romantics: Rousseau to Sand and Hugo Contributor(s): Thompson, C. W. (Author), Cook, Malcolm (Editor), Kearns, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820468940 ISBN-13: 9780820468945 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 840.935 |
| LCCN: 2003065736 |
| Series: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, |
| Physical Information: 2 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walking and the French Romantics explores for the first time the relationship between walking and Romanticism in France. It maps this relationship as theme and practice, no social history of pedestrian tours in nineteenth-century France having been written. In this connection, the legacy of Rousseau and Senancour proves stronger than has been recognized, in spite of the pull of Paris and its legendary urban flaneurs. The author brings out the role of painters and of figures like Nodier, Didier and Dumas in encouraging writers to go (or imagine themselves) on the road and shows how and why pedestrian touring became popular with authors in the late 1830s. He discusses the impact of this fashion on major Romantic writers such as Nerval, Sand and Hugo. Finally he describes how walking lost its particular cultural connection with Romanticism in the 1840s. |