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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Beaumont
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Description for Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Paperback. A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 49. Weight in Grams: 516.
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun's down. If nightwalking is a matter of "going astray" in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of ... Read more
"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun's down. If nightwalking is a matter of "going astray" in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
515g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784783785
SKU
V9781784783785
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About Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays: As Radical as Reality ... Read more
Reviews for Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography.
Financial Times
A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it.?
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Financial Times
A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it.?
... Read more