Matthew Beaumont

Broschiertes Buch

Nightwalking

A Nocturnal History of London

Mitarbeit: Self, Will

Beschreibung

A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 5071
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781784783785
• ISBN-10: 1784783781
• Artikelnr.: 43352073

Rezensionen

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