The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city /
Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-
The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont. - 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Lost and unlost steps -- Convalescing -- Going astray -- Disappearing -- Fleeing -- Wandering -- Collapsing -- Striding, staring -- Beginning -- Stumbling -- Not belonging -- Afterword: Walking in London and Paris at night.
"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life"--
9781788738910 1788738918
2020024743
GBC0D4424 bnb
019928682 Uk
1800-1899
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking--History--England--19th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
City and town life in literature.
Civilization.
English literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking.
Walking in literature.
England--Civilization--19th century.
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR468.W35 / B43 2020
820.9
The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont. - 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Lost and unlost steps -- Convalescing -- Going astray -- Disappearing -- Fleeing -- Wandering -- Collapsing -- Striding, staring -- Beginning -- Stumbling -- Not belonging -- Afterword: Walking in London and Paris at night.
"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life"--
9781788738910 1788738918
2020024743
GBC0D4424 bnb
019928682 Uk
1800-1899
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking--History--England--19th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
City and town life in literature.
Civilization.
English literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking.
Walking in literature.
England--Civilization--19th century.
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR468.W35 / B43 2020
820.9