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Isabel Vila–Cabanes studied English Philology at the University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Ghent, Belgium. She received her PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. She is the author of Re–Imagining the Streets of Paris: The French Flaneur in Nineteenth–Century Literature (2016) and has published extensively on the topic of flanerie. She has written articles on Dickens, the grotesque, and iconicity, including “Dickens in Popular Culture: Reception and Adaptations of his Works in Contemporary American Adult TV Series” (2014), “Reading the Grotesque in the Works of Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift” (2014), and “Iconicity, ‘Intersemiotic Translation’ and the Sonnet in the Visual Poetry of Avelino de Araújo” (2017).

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The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

“The Worlds of London Unknown”

By: Isabel Vila-Cabanes

£64.99

Vila-Cabanes explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory and history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the nineteenth century.