{"product_id":"walking-and-the-aesthetics-of-modernity-pedestrian-mobility-in-literature-and-the-arts-paperback","title":"Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKlaus Benesch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrançois Specq\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e François Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 331\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42121896329351,"sku":"9781349930869","price":113.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/eb36b715df38729d73aa9ebf78d201dc.webp?v=1732556664","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/walking-and-the-aesthetics-of-modernity-pedestrian-mobility-in-literature-and-the-arts-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}