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The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city /

"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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.
Subjects:
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.
Civilization.
English literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Walking.
England.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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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"--
Physical Description:320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781788738910
1788738918