Night Walking

Resumen del libro

Before the age of the gas lamp, the city at night was a different place, home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctiambulators. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beautmont shines a light on the dark perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers from Shakespeare, the ecstatic strolls of William Blake, the feverish urges of opium addict De Quincey as well as the master night walker, Charles Dickens.

Biografía del autor

Matthew Beaumont es profesor en el Departamento de Inglés en el University College de Londres. Es autor de "Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900" y "Night Walking. A nocturnal History of London", así como coautor, junto a Terry Eagleton, de "The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue" y coeditor de numerosas colecciones de ensayos, como "Restless Cities" o "Adventures in Realism".