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Film of the Month – May 2012 – Flânerie Seen Through a Lens: Light, Movement...
Something different this month; rather than reviewing a specific film we are looking at how the creative process of film-making links with the practice of the flâneur, feminism and early modernist...
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Website of the Month – July 2012 – London Fictions
London Fictions is a website curated by BBC journalist, Andrew Whitehead. Andrew is an adopted Londoner and is passionate about London fiction. He aims, with this site, to share his excitement about...
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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism
(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and...
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Gender, Truth and Reality: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats –...
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Dorothy Richardson’s ‘The Tunnel’: Feminism and Flânerie in Bloomsbury
Dorothy Richardson The idea of the flâneur was born in Paris and was first referred to by Baudelaire. However, London writers have long used the device of the casual wanderer of the capital’s...
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‘The Lodger’ by Louisa Treger
Ten minutes into the conversation I realise that the writer my MA supervisor is talking about is the same one I discovered for myself some months before, except she gives Walter Benjamin’s name the...
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There’s a Thousand Things I Want to Say to You: The City, Modernism and the...
The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its basic...
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