Nightwalking (eBook)

A Nocturnal History of London

Matthew Beaumont (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | Ebook UK & RoW
496 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78168-797-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this brilliant 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2015
• Nachwort: Will Self
• Zusatzinfo: 12 B/W integrated
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Blake • Charles • Chaucer • City • Crime • Curfew • De • de Quincey • Dickens • Gaslight • Literature • Living • metropolitan • noctambulant • novelists • Orlando • poets • Quincey • Shakespeare • Thomas • Travel • Urbanism • William • writers
• ISBN-10: 1-78168-797-8 / 1781687978
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-797-0 / 9781781687970