American Flaneur investigates the connections between Edgar A. Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - suggested in Walter Benjam

A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixtee

Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.

The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary pano

Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flâneri