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DOI	10.1080/09574042.2011.542365
	Flanerie and the Ghosts of War: Hidden Perspectives of Edith Wharton's 'The Look of Paris'
	Reus, Teresa
通讯作者	Reus, TG
来源期刊	WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW
ISSN	0957-4042
EISSN	1470-1367
出版年	2011
卷号	22 期号:1 页码:29-+
英文摘要	This essay makes use of the controversial trope of the 'invisible flaneuse' in its attempt to give critical visibility to Edith Wharton's wartime article ` The Look of Paris', and to point out the hitherto unnoticed connections that exist between this documentary text and two of her supernatural tales. What links Wharton's ghosts to her experience of war is that they both represent a felt rather than a seen reality, and it is this fact which opened up the possibility for a symbiotic relationship between her war journalism and her ghost stories. The essay argues that the introduction of martial law in August 1914, which had pushed Wharton out of her car and onto the pavement, had also offered her the liberty to become a kind of wartime flaneuse, with the opportunity to observe the defamiliarised city from the vantage point of the streets at a unique moment in modern history. Her ceaseless walks across Paris resulted in compelling descriptions of the mute and deserted capital, which general mobilization had turned into a ghost town. The looming presence of a heavily censored war within a silent and incongruously serene urban landscape gives rise to a number of phantasmagoric images which have left discernible traces in 'Kerfol' and in 'All Souls''. The same motifs of silence and emptiness that mark her portrait of a city in suspended animation reappear in these tales, suggesting the existence of a hidden link between the author's wartime experience and two of her most celebrated ghost stories.
英文关键词	wartime fla <^> neuse modern metropolis Edith Wharton 'The Look of Paris' First World War the uncanny ghost story 'Kerfol' 'All Souls''
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000210998400003
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329641
作者单位	[Reus, Teresa] Univ Alicante, Amer Literature, Alicante, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Reus, Teresa. Flanerie and the Ghosts of War: Hidden Perspectives of Edith Wharton's 'The Look of Paris'[J],2011,22(1):29-+.
APA	Reus, Teresa.(2011).Flanerie and the Ghosts of War: Hidden Perspectives of Edith Wharton's 'The Look of Paris'.WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW,22(1),29-+.
MLA	Reus, Teresa."Flanerie and the Ghosts of War: Hidden Perspectives of Edith Wharton's 'The Look of Paris'".WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW 22.1(2011):29-+.

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