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American Flaneur

Name: American Flaneur
Author: James V. Werner
ISBN: 9780203492826

by James V. Werner

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Overview

Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture.

About the Author, James V. Werner

James Werner teaches English at Queens College, and is Senior Writer for the Chancellor of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. from CUNY's Graduate School and University Center. His articles appear in The Edgar Allan Poe Review, American Transcendental Quarterly, American Periodicals, and The Mid-Atlantic Almanack.