Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew Beaumont, Will Self (Afterword by)Publish date:7/22/2025Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804298480ISBN-10:1804298484UPC:9781804298480Book Category:Social Science, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Sociology, Europe, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:Urban, Great BritainSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCVVHM0YFX
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city's most iconic writers throughout history "Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804298480ISBN-10:1804298484UPC:9781804298480Book Category:Social Science, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Sociology, Europe, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:Urban, Great BritainSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCVVHM0YFX
Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has also edited Restless Cities (2010). He lives and walks in London.
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