Title:
The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city / Matthew Beaumont.
ISBN:
9781788738910
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Lost and unlost steps -- Convalescing -- Going astray -- Disappearing -- Fleeing -- Wandering -- Collapsing -- Striding, staring -- Beginning -- Stumbling -- Not belonging -- Afterword: Walking in London and Paris at night.
Summary:
"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1141140655
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
