Victorian Persistance Seminar, session 3: “The Flâneur revisited: Paradoxes, Polymorphism, Persistence in Paris and London”

Session 3 of our seminar took place this Wednesday January 11 at the UFR d’Etudes Anglophones Charles V (salle C330, 17h30-19h30):

‘The Flâneur revisited: Paradoxes, Polymorphism, Persistence in Paris and London’

Estelle Murail (Université Paris Diderot) hosted the session and introduced the texts.

Two respondents were present:

–      Dr. Tom Stammers (Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge): “The collector and the flâneur: the typologies of sensation in nineteenth-century Paris”

–      Tatiana  Michoud – Pogossian (Université Paris Diderot): “The persistence of flânerie in the quest for London (Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair)”

We worked with the following texts:

– Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821), ‘The Pleasures of Opium’ [download here]

– Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, II. The Flâneur [download here]

Arcades Project, Section M, ‘The Flâneur’: http://arcadesawakening.wordpress.com/category/m-the-flaneur/

– Michael Hollington, ‘“Petrified unrest”: Dickens and Baudelaire on London and Paris 1855-56’,  Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande n°3, 2010. [download here]

Estelle Murail and Dr. Tom Stammers talking about the emergence of the flâneur in the nineteenth century