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This volume offers new perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history - the flâneur. Recent writing on the flâneur has given little sustained attention to the widespread adaptation of the flâneur outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the form of historic antecedents, modern sequels, or contemporary echoes. Yet it is clear that the allure of the flâneur's persona has led to its translation and adoption far beyond Parisian boulevards and

The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19th-century journaliastic practices, designed to deal with censorship, and to express political opposition through urban observation.

Introduction / Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley -- Hearing through the eye in eighteenth-century French opera / David Charlton -- Nihil per saltum : chiaroscuro in eighteenth-century lyric theatre / Mark Darlow -- Musical mutualism : David, Degotti and operatic painting / Mark Ledbury -- Music, theatre, and the Gothic imaginary : visualising the "Bleeding Nun" / Thomas Grey -- Belshazzar's Feast and the operatic imagination / Sarah Hibberd -- Romantic painters as costumiers : the stage as pictorial battlefield / Olivia Voisin -- Delaroche off stage / Stephen Bann -- Performers and spectators : viewing Delaroche / Patricia Smyth -- Delaroche and the drama of history : gesture and impassivity from The children of Edward IV to Marie-Antoinette at the Tribunal / Beth S. Wright -- Playing with excess : Maria Malibran as Clari at the Théâtre Italien / Céline Frigau Manning -- All mixed up : Etienne-Jean Delécluze and the théâtral in art and criticism / Richard Wrigley