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Author: Beaumont, Matthew
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781784783785
Pages: 496
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publisher's city: London
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Nightwalking : a nocturnal history of London, Chaucer to Dickens
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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.