From Spectator to Citizen: Urban Walking in Canadian Literature, Performance Art and Culture

This dissertation examines urban walking in Canada as it deviates from a largely male peripatetic tradition associated with the flâneur. This new incarnation of the walker—differentiated by gender, race, class, and/or sexual orientation—reshapes the urban imaginary and shifts the act of walking from...

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Main Author: MacPherson, Sandra
Other Authors: Stacey, Robert
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37321
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-21593