VPHB68H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Unthinkable, Constantin Guys, The Dandy
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Women had a private sphere of the home even if they did work. Janet wolff- the invisible flaneuse: women & the literature of modernity. Literature of modernity describes men"s experiences of life in the metropolis, rarely a woman"s. Women rarely worked in factories, the government, and offices but that has changed now. Institutions were run by men for men (owners, industrialists, managers, financers) Cities weren"t new in the 19th century, but urban existence changed in the mid-19th century. Work, housings, and social relations changed with industrial capitalism & the birth of modernity. Baudelaire (poet) found a painter named constantin guys who depicts the modern. Flaneurs have the freedom to move about the city & observe while being observed but never interacting with others. Richard sannett"s book was called the fall of public man because it was only about men who passed time in coffee houses, paraded streets & theatres, & freely addressed strangers in public (18th century & earlier)
