TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beaumont,Matthew
TI  - The walker: on finding and losing yourself in the modern city 
SN  - 9781788738910
AV  - PR468.W35 B43 2020
U1  - 820.9 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Walking in literature
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - Pedestrians in literature
KW  - Walking
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -