Flaneurs & Idlers

Louis Huart: Physiologie du flaneur (1841)

Albert Smith: The Natural History of the Idler upon Town (1848)

Introduced and edited by Margaret A. Rose

AISTHESIS Archiv 8

2020 [als Print-Ausgabe: 2007: ISBN 978-3-89528-640-7]

ISBN 978-3-8498-1616-2

361 Seiten

E-Book (PDF-Datei), 34 MB

Auch als Print-Ausgabe erhältlich: ISBN 978-3-89528-640-7

• I. Margaret A. Rose: Flaneurs & Idlers: a ‘panoramic’ overview
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Louis Huart’s Physiologie du flaneur of 1841
• 3. Heinrich Heine’s Parisian flâneur
• 4. Charles Baudelaire’s flâneurs
• 5. Walter Benjamin and the Parisian flâneur
• 6. The London idlers of Albert Smith
• 7. The Berlin flâneur: from Heine to Benjamin and Hessel
• 8. The flâneur in the visual arts
• 9. The flâneur and the panorama
• 10. Conclusion
   
• II. Louis Huart: Physiologie du flaneur (1841), ill. Alophe, Daumier & Maurisset
   
• III. Albert Smith: The Natural History of the Idler upon Town (1848), ill. Henning
   
• IV. Appendix 1. John Leech’s “Parisian Swell” of 1838 & Extract from the last of Albert Smith’s (Knips’) “Sketches of Paris” of 1839
   
• V. Appendix 2. A. Henning’s “The Man about Town” of 1842
   
• VI. Appendix 3. Further sketches by John Leech to Albert Smith’s “Physiology of the London Idler” of 1842
   
• VII. Bibliography

Margaret A. Rose completed her doctoral thesis on Heine in 1973 and has published widely on Heine as well as on literary parody and the visual arts of the 19th century (see, for example, her recent Parodie, Intertextualität, Interbildlichkeit, Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2006). In this new work she provides an introduction to and reproduction of two important examples of the ‘panoramic literature’ of the 19th century in which the figure of the flâneur is ironically represented and caricatured. Her introduction to the ‘physiologies’ of Huart and Smith discusses and presents information on the idlers and/or flâneurs of Samuel Johnson, Honoré de Balzac, Heinrich Heine, Louis Huart, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Albert Smith, Walter Benjamin and Franz Hessel as well as the visual arts of their time, while an extensive bibliography lists examples of primary and secondary works on the subject.

Leseprobe: lp-9783895286407.pdf

[...] Der ausführliche und erhellende Einleitungsessay, den Margaret A. Rose ihrer Edition dankenswerter Weise vorangestellt hat, bietet nicht nur eine aufschlussreiche Einführung zu den edierten Schriften, sondern entfaltet darüber hinaus einen breit gefächerten und zugleich prägnanten kulturgeschichtlichen Überblick über die europäischen Flaneurs. Insgesamt stellen die Editionen und der einleitende Kommentar eine Bereicherung der komparatistischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung sowie des privaten Lesevergnügens dar. Der Fund der beiden Essays oder vielmehr ihre geglückte Wiederentdeckung ist äußerst dankenswert und fruchtbar, indem sie zu einer schweifenden und flanierenden Lektüre einlädt. Zumal die schöne Buchgestaltung und der reich illustrierte Faksimiledruck dazu beitragen, den Lesern anregende und produktive Impulse zu vermitteln.
Annette Simonis in „komparatistik.online“ (2007)

[...] a major scholarly contribution to Comparative Literature.
Michael Hollington in „The Dickensian“ (Spring 2008)

[…] this publication reprints two important mid nineteenth-century texts dealing with the 'flaneur', the idle urban observer. […] The editor's 72-page essay […] offers much more than an introduction to the subject. Margaret Rose discusses and transcends the limitations of Walter Benjamin's canonical critique of the flaneur, such as its fixation on Paris and its ideological bias deriving from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theories. [...] Rose's publication contains a superb bibliography of primary an secondary literature [...] – a key to further research into nineteenth-century culture of entertainment and instruction.
Martina Lauster in „Modern Language Review“ (103.4.2008)

Dem Aisthesis Verlag ist zu dieser Veröffentlichung zweier Kerntexte des 19. Jahrhunderts über das Thema des Flaneurs bzw. spazierenden Müßiggängers zu gratulieren [...]. Den Band eröffnet eine äußerst umfangreiche, so kompakte wie informative Untersuchung der Herausgeberin [...]. Roses Band bietet einen wichtigen Baustein in der Erforschung dieser weitgehend unbekannten Zusammenhänge, nicht nur dank des umfassend informierenden Herausgebertextes, sondern auch dank des hervorragenden Verzeichnisses von Primär- und Sekundärliteratur.
Martina Lauster in „Immermann-Jahrbuch 2008“

[...] Meticulously annoted and rich in bibliographic resources, „Flaneurs & Idlers“ adeptly responds to seemingly contradictory needs in the field. [...] Rose offers illuminating perspective on what such satire lays bare: provocative insights on class and the experience of daily life in the nineteenth-century metropolis.
Katherine Gantz in „Nineteenth-Century French Studies“ (37, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring-Summer 2009)

[...] The decision to make these texts available, their subject matter, and the full apparatus Rose has provided make an important contribution to our understanding of the phenomenon of the „flaneur. [...]
David Paroissien in „Dickens Quarterly“ (June 2009, Vol. 26, Nr. 2)

It is perhaps surprising that in the extensive scholarship on the flâneur, the Physiologie du flâneur and more especially the The Natural History of the Idler upon Town have not garnered more attention, particularly given the opportunity they present for working comparatively across national boundaries. Huart’s text has been cited by critics, but often as a prelude to a discussion of Baudelaire or simply to note Walter Benjamin’s neglect of this book and the genre to which it belongs. The 2007 republication of Huart’s and Smith’s texts in facsimile with detailed textual commentary and a critical introduction by Margaret A. Rose should draw further attention to these works and the flâneur prior to Baudelaire’s (and subsequently Benjamin’s) more famous treatment of the figure, as well as flânerie beyond Paris.
Jo Briggs in „The Flâneur Abroad“, Hg. Richard Wrigley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2014, S. 118

AISTHESIS Archiv 8

Margaret A. Rose

Pictorial Irony, Parody, and Pastiche

Comic interpictoriality in the arts of the 19th and 20th centuries

2020 [als Print-Ausgabe: 2011: ISBN 978-3-89528-841-8]

ISBN 978-3-8498-1612-4

343 Seiten, zahlr. Abb.

E-Book (PDF-Datei), 11 MB

Als Print-Ausgabe: ISBN 978-3-89528-841-8

In addition to these books Dr. Rose has recently completed articles on the subjects of 19th century caricature, the grotesque and parody, Karl Rosenkranz’s “Aesthetics of the Ugly”, and on parody in 19th Century British and German art.

Leseprobe: lp-9783895288418.pdf

[…] Turning to the substance of the book, it stresses the integration of structure and reception in parody, a vital aspect often missed in academic discussions of humour whether verbal or visual. Contextual and integral signals to the audience clearly impact on whether humour is perceived and hence enjoyed. Here Rose's deep knowledge of the models and contexts for historically remote works such as those of the nineteenth century is especially valuable: painstakingly annotated details reveal a powerfully comic discourse that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Drawing on her earlier studies (including of Heine's poetry), Rose develops convincing schematic outlines of how the world(s) of the picture and the world(s) of the spectator relate in both parody and pastiche. […] The admirable complexity of purpose in this book is reflected in its choice of cover image, Salvatore Fiume's Adunata nell'atelier (1987). This is not a broadly comic pastiche but a subtly ironic and respectful humorous tribute to Fiume's many quoted originals and models. In discussion (102-9), Rose observes that these can be seen as interrelated, allowing for some kind of comic intention to be attributed (they reflect the detail of Rose's diagram for comic pictorial pastiche on 98, rather than that for simple pictorial pastiche on 95). […] Rose proves her point that parody, pastiche, andirony are all techniques at the service of satirical purpose, but that they do not necessarily coincide with it so that we must remain alert to the full range of possibilities, both of artist's intention and of audience reception, in this ambiguous world of art. Her perceptive scholarship illuminates a complex topic and many will turn to it for reliable guidance.
Jessica Milner Davis in „The British Journal of Aesthetics Advance Access“ (November 2012)

Margaret A. Rose

Art, Music, and Humour in Theodor Mintrop’s Album for Minna

2023

ISBN 978-3-8498-1938-5

219 pages

Numerous coloured illustrations

E-Book (PDF-Datei), 25 MB

• Preface
   
• Introduction
   
• Chapter 1. Theodor Mintrop, the rural and comic Raphael
   
• Chapter 2. Minna and her family
   
• Chapter 3. The Album
   
• 3.1. The sketch titles
   
• 3.2. Interpictorial references
   
• 3.3. Musical references
   
• 3.4. The album’s photographs and sketches
   
• Select bibliography
   
• Person index
   
• Acknowledgements

Margaret A. Rose, geboren 1947 in Melbourne/Australien, lebt heute in Cambridge/England. Nach ihrer Promotion 1973 (Die Parodie: Eine Funktion der biblischen Sprache in Heines Lyrik) hat sie 1979 ihre wichtige Analyse Parody//Meta-Fiction vorgelegt, der weitere Buchveröffentlichungen folgten. Im Aisthesis Verlag sind erschienen: Theodor Mintrops Briefe an Anna Rose (1857-1869) (2014), Theodor Mintrop. Das Album für Minna (1855-1857) nebst anderen neuentdeckten Materialien (2003), Parodie, Intertextualität, Interbildlichkeit (2006), Flaneurs & Idlers. Louis Huart “Physiologie du flaneur” (1841) & Albert Smith “The Natural History of the Idler upon Town” (1848) (2007), Pictorial Irony, Parody, and Pastiche. Comic interpictoriality in the arts of the 19th and 20th centuries (2011), Theodor Mintrops komische Märchen in Bildern (1855-1866) / Theodor Mintrop's comic fairy tales in pictures (1855-1866) (2016).

Leseprobe: lp-9783849819385.pdf