Matthew Beaumont: Nightwalking | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781804298480 | Nightwalking | A Nocturnal History of London | Matthew Beaumont | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (2015), 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).

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781804298480
ISBN-10:	1804298484
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Beaumont, Matthew
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	LOGOS EUROPE, 9 Rue Nicholas Poussin, F-17000 La Rochelle, contact@logoseurope.eu
Abbildungen:	12 B/W integrated
Maße:	194 x 131 x 37 mm
Von/Mit:	Matthew Beaumont
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.09.2025
Gewicht:	0,397 kg