Nightwalking by Matthew Beaumont
A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met
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.? * Standard *
He releases an ancient, urban miasma that rises from the page, untroubled by electric illumination, allowing us to inhale what Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Dekker called "that thick tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throws abroad * Independent *
An important and lively book. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Magnificent -- Ian Thomson * New Statesman *
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.? * Standard *
He releases an ancient, urban miasma that rises from the page, untroubled by electric illumination, allowing us to inhale what Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Dekker called "that thick tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throws abroad * Independent *
An important and lively book. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Magnificent -- Ian Thomson * New Statesman *
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 Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century; The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble; Adventures in Realism; and Restless Cities.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784783785 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784783781 |
| Title | Nightwalking |
| Author | Matthew Beaumont |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2016-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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