A Flâneur in Philly: Class, Gender, Race, and All That Jazz.
Between 1793 and 1797 a British musician who fancied himself a flaneur--a stroller, idler, time waster--moved to the United States to earn his living and travel around the country. William Priest's letters to England contain insightful comments about urban life in the new nation, observations that t...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 512 - 544 |
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