The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont.
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2020Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788738910; 1788738918Subject(s): English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Walking in literature | City and town life in literature | Pedestrians in literature | Walking -- England -- History -- 19th century | England -- Civilization -- 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 | Great Britain | 1800-1899Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc. | History.Additional physical formats: Online version:: WalkerDDC classification: 820.9 LOC classification: PR468.W35 | B43 2020Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Book-Circulating | Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | PR468.W35 B43 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B014784 |
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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