Walking and the French Romantics - Rousseau to Sand and Hugo (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, v. 13
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	C.W. Thompson
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-910078-1
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	3-03-910078-5
Barcode:	9783039100781

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