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1788738926 
Paperback The walker : on losing and finding yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont.
Publication year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Category: Non-fiction
Publisher: London : Verso, 2021.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781788738927 (pbk.) :
Available: 1
Number of reservations: 0
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There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont, retraces a history of the walker. From Charles Dicken's insomniac night rambles to wandering through the faceless, windswept monuments of the neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of escape, self-discovery, disappearances and potential revolution. Pacing stride for stride alongside such literary amblers and thinkers as Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew Breton, H G Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Matthew Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life.
English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Pedestrians in literature.
Walking England History 19th century.
Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.
England Civilization 19th century.
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