The Walk: Notes on a Romantic ImageDalkey Archive Press, 2006 - 144 pagina's "The Walk," a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of walking--through the country or city, during day or night, alone or with someone--and the literatures--the poems, essays, stories, novels, and diaries--walking has produced. Jeffrey C. Robinson's discussion is less criticism than appreciation: with an autobiographical bent, he leads the reader through Romantic, modern, and contemporary literature to show us the shared pleasures of reading, writing, and walking. |
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Introduction Page 3 318 | 3 |
Walking and the Self | 17 |
The Walking Essay and the Compulsion to Collect | 29 |
Walking Romanticism | 35 |
Engagement | 46 |
Civilization and the Sacred | 55 |
The Walk as Comedy | 63 |
Walking and Solitude | 70 |
Night Walks | 77 |
The Urban Walker | 88 |
Journey Through a Degas Exhibit Metropolitan Museum | 105 |
The Bridge | 112 |