The Metropolitan as Master Subject: Janet Flanner's 'Paris Letters'

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2010

Journal / Book Title

Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal

Abstract

Janet Flanner's early "Paris Letters" invite the New Yorker's audience to view Paris with condescension. The content and rhetoric of these pieces reverse the traditional hierarchy between French and American cultures, showing her readers that superiority means seeing as the master subject-a seductive perspective for an economically emergent readership.

Published Citation

Gonzalez, Jeffrey. “The Metropolitan as Master Subject: Janet Flanner’s ‘Paris Letters.’” Mosaic (Winnipeg), no. 1, 2010, p. 41. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.222558939&site=eds-live&scope=site.

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