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Author Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- author.

Title The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont.

Publication Info. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.
©2020

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 Moore Stacks  PR468.W35 B43 2020    Available  ---
Description 320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Walking in literature.
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Pedestrians in literature.
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Walking.
England.
History.
England -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Civilization.
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Online version: Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- Walker London ; New York : Verso, 2020 9781788738941 (DLC) 2020024744
ISBN 1788738918 hardcover
9781788738910 hardcover
9781788738941 electronic book
9781788738934 electronic book