The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture Women Wandering Purposefully

Introduction: Searching for the Flâneuse: The Uneven Power of Wandering - Irina Gendelman and Jeff Birkenstein; Part I: Inventing the Flâneuse: Modernism, Mind, and Mobility; 1. The Flâneuse-ing Mind: Construction of the Self in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway - Gwenda Koo; 2. World War II and the Flâneuse in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day - Jennifer Gray; 3. Labyrinths of the Mind, Wanderings in the City: Anaïs Nin's Winter of Artifice and Under a Glass Bell - Francisco José Cortés Vieco; 4. "She wandered, almost prowled": The Black Flâneuse of Fauset's Plum Bun - Andrea Tinnemeyer; Part II: Global Flâneuses: Migration, Periphery, and Transnational Cities; 5. Navigating the Metropolis: The Flâneuse's Embodied Experience of Urban Anonymity and Resistance - Nicolae Bobaru; 6. Flâneuses' Performances Abroad, Peripheral Literature, and a New Nation-State - Eva Eglāja-Kristsone and Kārlis Vērdiņš; 7. A Turkish Flâneuse: The Subversion of Gendered and Cultural Identity by Wandering the City in Aslı Erdoğan's The City in Crimson Cloak - Damla Pehlivan; 8. Women and the Indian City: Exploring the Flâneuse in Select Contemporary Indian English Women's Writings - Sreejata Roy; 9. Melancholic Flânerie and Mapping Memory in Cold Enough for Snow - Danica van de Velde; Part III: Expanding the Flâneuse: Space, Practice, and Contemporary Reconfigurations; 10. 'I Felt Like I Owned the City': Remapping New York with the Contemporary Flâneuse - Angelica De Vido; 11. "Loneliness is collective, it is a city": Collective Isolation and the Neoliberal City in Olivia Laing's The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Holly Parker; 12. Subverting Expectation: The Flâneuse Outside the City - Erica K. Fischer; 13. Curated (Foot)steps in Susan Orlean's My Kind of Place and On Animals - Danette DiMarco; 14. Defiance and Care in a Stalled Revolution: Wandering Purposefully—and Alphabetically—Through Brooklyn's City Parks - Jenny Dixon; Part IV: The Flâneuse in Media and Mediation; 15. Life Moves On: Exploring Private Spaces in Walking Simulator Games - Jasmin Bieber and Kristina Jevtic; 16. Playing the Flâneuse: Wandering in Woman Detective Games - Andrea Braithwaite; 17. Fleabag Feminism: From Fourth-Wall Breaks to TikTok Takes—How a Modern Icon Redefines Feminist Narratives - Chloe Caballero; 18. Walking in Bruges: Audrey Hepburn and Forever Virtuous (?) Fellow Flâneuses in Feature Films - Etienne Boumans; 19. Anonymity and Identity: A Female Protagonist Reinterprets the Flâneur in Amélie - Farrah Hersh; 20. Stillness in Motion: BIBI, Hongdae, and Flâneuserie Under Platform Capitalism - Nicholas E. Miller; 21. Wayfinding through Media: The Pop Flâneuse in Gilmore Girls - Katheryn Wright; 22. The Digital Flâneuse: Female Wanderers Navigating the Internet in Contemporary Literature - Slađana Stamenković

Biography

Irina Gendelman, PhD, is Professor of Communication Studies at Saint Martin’s University. Her research explores public spaces, and cultural narratives, with particular interest in identity, and power. She teaches courses in communication and social theory and co-edits this volume on the evolving figure of the flâneuse.

Jeff Birkenstein has a PhD in English from the University of Kentucky and a second MA in TESOL, a degree which has helped him teach around the world. His research and teaching focus on composition and pedagogy as well as, with literature, the world short story and American literature of the 20th century. Thematically, Birkenstein is especially interested in connections between literature and food.