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Nightwalking

A Nocturnal History of London. Foreword and Afterword Will Self
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
496 Seiten
Englisch
Versoerschienen am12.04.2016
A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they metmehr
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KlappentextA captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-78478-378-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum12.04.2016
Seiten496 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht434 g
Artikel-Nr.35131284
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Kritik
"A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it."
-Ian Thomson, Evening Standard

"An enthralling study of city life and creativity ... impressive, magisterial ... A copy of Nightwalking should be the indispensable handbook for creative writing classes from Ayrshire to East Anglia."
-Robert McCrum, Observer

"Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography."
- Financial Times

"An important and lively book."
- Times Higher Education

"A lively and learned study ... a book that remains personal in tone even when it is flexing its considerable intellectual muscle."
-Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Guardian

"Rarely has a book about darkness been so illuminating."
- Spectator ("Books of the Year")

"One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics."
-Terry Eagleton

"Nothing less than a grand unifying theory of the counter-enlightenment."
-Will Self

"He releases an ancient, urban miasma that rises from the page, untroubled by electric illumination, allowing us to inhale what Shakespeare's contemporary Thomas Dekker called 'that thick tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throws abroad.'"
- Independent

"Teeming and glorious ... Matthew Beaumont probes far into the shadows."
-Alexandra Harris, Times Literary Supplement

"This is a book pulsing with life, just as the streets do, despite attempts to cut that liminal, semi-illicit life off. The foreword and afterword, by Will Self, beautifully bracket the book, reinforcing the idea that the city is layered over time, and that each layer is accessible, and can be made vivid in the imagination. Why Nightwalking has not won a major award is beyond mine."
-Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

"In Nightwalking , Matthew Beaumont rubs shoulders with the deviants, dissidents and dispossessed who lurk in the shadows of Shakespeare, Johnson, Blake and De Quincey."
-Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard ("The Best Books About London")

"The joy of Beaumont's book is the way it illuminates both literature and urban politics through the splendors and panics of their nighttime journeys."
- Flavorwire

"A historical guide to the capital, Beaumont details everything including the 'villainous' common nightwalkers and prostitutes of the middle ages and Charles Dickens's time as an insomniac."
- Dazed & Confusedmehr

Autor

Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (2015), The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).