Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity

Can there be a , and what form might she take? This is the central question of , an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity in which Deborah Parsons re-draws the gendered map of urban modernism. Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the , the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion of a female ' ,' focused around a range of women writers from the 1880's to World War Two, including Amy Levy, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing.