The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Beaumont, Matthew
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Beaumont, Matthew

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

From Dickensian London to today's megacities--what urban walking tells us about modern life There is no such...
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Author: Matthew Beaumont
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The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Beaumont, Matthew

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

CHF 30.58
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Beaumont, Matthew

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

CHF 30.58
Author: Matthew Beaumont
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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From Dickensian London to today's megacities--what urban walking tells us about modern life

There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-nineteenth century.

From Dickens's insomniac night rambles to restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and self-escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life.

Through these writings, Beaumont asks: Can you get lost in a crowd? What are the consequences of using your smartphone in the street? What differentiates the nocturnal metropolis from the city of daylight? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? And can we save the city--or ourselves--by taking to the pavement?

Author: Matthew Beaumont
Publisher: Verso
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781788738927

About the Author
Matthew Beaumont is a professor in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue, and co-editor of Restless Cities. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London. He lives in London.
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