Häftad, Engelska, 2025
Nightwalking
A Nocturnal History of London
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In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations; the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate rub shoulders.
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- Utgivningsdatum: 2025-07-22
- Mått: 190 x 30 x 120 mm
- Vikt: 500 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 496
- Förlag: Verso Books
- Medarbetare: Will Self
- ISBN: 9781804298480
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Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).
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Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography.
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