Nightwalking
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Matthew Beaumont (Útgáfa: 0)
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In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations; 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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- Verso
- 9781781687970
- 9781804298480
- ePub
- 0
- Matthew Beaumont
- English
- 2015-03-24
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction – Geoff Dyer
- Foreword – NLR
- Raymond Williams – Dates
- References
- I: Biography
- 1. Boyhood
- 2. Cambridge
- 3. War
- 4. Cambridge Again
- 5. Politics and Letters
- 6. Adult Education
- 7. The Fifties
- II: Culture
- 1. Culture and Society
- 2. The Long Revolution
- 3. Keywords
- III: Drama
- 1. Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
- 2. Brecht and Beyond
- IV: Literature
- 1. Reading and Criticism
- 2. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
- 3. The Welsh Trilogy; The Volunteers
- 4. The Country and the City
- 5. Marxism and Literature
- V: Politics
- 1. Britain 1956–78
- 2. Orwell
- 3. The Russian Revolution
- 4. Two Roads to Change