ENGLISH 2I06 Lecture Notes - Elizabeth Wilson, Skywriting, Golden Ratio
23 Nov 2012
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The proliferation of public places of pleasure and interest created a new kind of public person with the leisure to wander, watch and browse: the flaneur. Elizabeth wilson, the invisible flaneur the department store quote. Women embracing city life: mrs. dalloway: bond street fascinated her (2338-2352) walking and looking; the sky-writing scene, which prompts mrs. dempster"s visions of adventure (2352) Ordinary person compared to dalloway; the old woman who sings her ancient song in front of. Regent"s park tube station a voice bubbling up (2379) women will not be destroyed by the city but will live on united with it; clarissa"s identification with the old woman at the window . Here was one room; there another (2403, cf. 2432); elizabeth dalloway in the department store (2404) and on the bus (2407) Suddenly elizabeth stepped forward ruthlessly (2407) personification of the bus transportation still coded as masculine some cabs and omnibuses are unlicensed, therefore pirates.
