"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.
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