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Nightwalking : A Nocturnal History of London
Nightwalking : A Nocturnal History of London
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- Author: Matthew Beaumont
- Format: Paperback 496 pages
- Publisher: Verso books
- Published: 29 Mar 2016
- In Nightwalking Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London-populated by the poor, the mad, the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. He shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and 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.
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