Nightwalking : a nocturnal history of London : Chaucer to Dickens
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-2025
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In this 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.
Main title:
Nightwalking : a nocturnal history of London : Chaucer to Dickens / Matthew Beaumont.
Author:
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2025.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781804298480 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4166202