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- ISBN
- 9781788738910
- Book Title
- Walker : on Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Travel, Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- Special Interest / Literary, Modern / 19th Century, Sociology / Urban
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- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 17.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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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?
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Verso Books
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1788738918
ISBN-13
9781788738910
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14038388336
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Book Title
Walker : on Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Special Interest / Literary, Modern / 19th Century, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
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Pr468.W35b43 2020
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"[ The Walker ] is an erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely ... Like his prose, Beaumont''s mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts ... Beaumont uses the language of contemporary literary theory, but with none of the rebarbative jargon-mongering of others in the professoriate. His references to the usual suspects--from Marx, Freud and Adorno through Lacan and Derrida, to Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek and Agamben--are never gratuitous, but always helpful in understanding the literary, historical, and psychological terrain he explores." --Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal "Matthew Beaumont''s prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. This is a superb and always engrossing collection." --Will Self, author of Psychogeography "[ The Walker ] is absolutely fascinating and [Beaumont''s] literary references are wonderful ... I absolutely loved it." --Jo Good, BBC Radio London "The Walker seeks to take its reader on an intriguing journey ... if you''re looking for some escapism that goes beyond the clichés of repetitive travel literature, this could well be the book for you." -- Northern Soul "[Beaumont''s] style is a treat--elegant, intelligent and entertaining as he describes the ways we read a city with our feet and mind, and guides us through a history of walking writing from Dickens and Poe to Marx and Zizek." --Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times "An uncanny and haunting foreshadowing of our cities as they now appear to us ... familiar subjects are given revelatory new interpretations ... thought-provoking." --Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement "Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking." --Sean O''Hagan, Observer "[A] heady blend of history and theory." -- New Yorker "Fascinating ... those interested in how literature has explored urban modernity are sure to find ample food for thought." -- Publishers Weekly "Dazzling." -- Eminetra "Dazzlingly erudite." -- Chris Moss, Guardian "Elegantly written and compellingly argued ... A highly commendable, engaging, and thoroughly researched study, The Walker infuses the poetics of walking with the politics of homing." -- Maxim Shadurski, English Studies "Striking ... a poetic heft rings resoundingly throughout [Beaumont''s] commentary, justly inviting a reader''s own imagined extensions." --Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi Review of Books "From start to finish a delight to read, The Walker is the beginning of wisdom in all things metro-pedestrian." --Ian Thomson, New Statesman "[ The Walker ] fascinates and informs from beginning to end ... Beaumont has positioned himself as the foremost theorist of walking working in English literary studies today." --Jeremy Withers, The Wellsian "Intriguing ... The Walker celebrates the secret, subversive life of cities and the people who pace their streets." --Jane Shilling, Daily Mail "[A] well-researched work of literary criticism." --Hannah Beckerman, Observer "Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking ... Baudelaire, the fl'neur poet of the Parisian dispossessed of another time, would surely have approved." --Sean O''Hagan, Guardian, Praise for Nightwalking: "One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics." - Terry Eagleton "Nothing less than a grand unifying theory of the counter-enlightenment." - Will Self "Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography." - Financial Times "An important and lively book" - Times Higher Education "A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it." - Ian Thomson, Standard "The joy of Beaumont's book is the way it illuminates both literature and urban politics through the splendors and panics of their nighttime journeys." - Flavorwire "An enthralling study of London after dark.... This is an impressive, magisterial book whose steady, earnest gaze also encompasses the lives of pickpockets and poets." - Robert McCrum, Guardian "This is a book pulsing with life, just as the streets do, despite attempts to cut that liminal, semi-illicit life off. The foreword and afterword, by Will Self, beautifully bracket the book, reinforcing the idea that the city is layered over time, and that each layer is accessible, and can be made vivid in the imagination. Why Nightwalking has not won a major award is beyond mine." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian, "[ The Walker ] is an erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely ... Like his prose, Beaumont's mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts ... Beaumont uses the language of contemporary literary theory, but with none of the rebarbative jargon-mongering of others in the professoriate. His references to the usual suspects--from Marx, Freud and Adorno through Lacan and Derrida, to Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek and Agamben--are never gratuitous, but always helpful in understanding the literary, historical, and psychological terrain he explores." --Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal "Matthew Beaumont's prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. This is a superb and always engrossing collection." --Will Self, author of Psychogeography "[ The Walker ] is absolutely fascinating and [Beaumont's] literary references are wonderful ... I absolutely loved it." --Jo Good, BBC Radio London "The Walker seeks to take its reader on an intriguing journey ... if you're looking for some escapism that goes beyond the clichés of repetitive travel literature, this could well be the book for you." -- Northern Soul "[Beaumont's] style is a treat--elegant, intelligent and entertaining as he describes the ways we read a city with our feet and mind, and guides us through a history of walking writing from Dickens and Poe to Marx and Zizek." --Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times "An uncanny and haunting foreshadowing of our cities as they now appear to us ... familiar subjects are given revelatory new interpretations ... thought-provoking." --Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement "Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking." --Sean O'Hagan, Observer "[A] heady blend of history and theory." -- New Yorker "Fascinating ... those interested in how literature has explored urban modernity are sure to find ample food for thought." -- Publishers Weekly "Dazzling." -- Eminetra "Dazzlingly erudite." -- Chris Moss, Guardian "Elegantly written and compellingly argued ... A highly commendable, engaging, and thoroughly researched study, The Walker infuses the poetics of walking with the politics of homing." -- Maxim Shadurski, English Studies, "[ The Walker ] is an erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely ... Like his prose, Beaumont's mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts ... Beaumont uses the language of contemporary literary theory, but with none of the rebarbative jargon-mongering of others in the professoriate. His references to the usual suspects--from Marx, Freud and Adorno through Lacan and Derrida, to Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek and Agamben--are never gratuitous, but always helpful in understanding the literary, historical, and psychological terrain he explores." --Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal "Matthew Beaumont's prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. This is a superb and always engrossing collection." --Will Self, author of Psychogeography Praise for Nightwalking: "One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics." - Terry Eagleton "Nothing less than a grand unifying theory of the counter-enlightenment." - Will Self "Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography." - Financial Times "An important and lively book" - Times Higher Education "A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it." - Ian Thomson, Standard "The joy of Beaumont's book is the way it illuminates both literature and urban politics through the splendors and panics of their nighttime journeys." - Flavorwire "An enthralling study of London after dark.... This is an impressive, magisterial book whose steady, earnest gaze also encompasses the lives of pickpockets and poets." - Robert McCrum, Guardian "This is a book pulsing with life, just as the streets do, despite attempts to cut that liminal, semi-illicit life off. The foreword and afterword, by Will Self, beautifully bracket the book, reinforcing the idea that the city is layered over time, and that each layer is accessible, and can be made vivid in the imagination. Why Nightwalking has not won a major award is beyond mine." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian, "[ The Walker ] is an erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely ... Like his prose, Beaumont''s mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts ... Beaumont uses the language of contemporary literary theory, but with none of the rebarbative jargon-mongering of others in the professoriate. His references to the usual suspects--from Marx, Freud and Adorno through Lacan and Derrida, to Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek and Agamben--are never gratuitous, but always helpful in understanding the literary, historical, and psychological terrain he explores." --Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal "Matthew Beaumont''s prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. This is a superb and always engrossing collection." --Will Self, author of Psychogeography "[ The Walker ] is absolutely fascinating and [Beaumont''s] literary references are wonderful ... I absolutely loved it." --Jo Good, BBC Radio London "The Walker seeks to take its reader on an intriguing journey ... if you''re looking for some escapism that goes beyond the clichés of repetitive travel literature, this could well be the book for you." -- Northern Soul "[Beaumont''s] style is a treat--elegant, intelligent and entertaining as he describes the ways we read a city with our feet and mind, and guides us through a history of walking writing from Dickens and Poe to Marx and Zizek." --Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times "An uncanny and haunting foreshadowing of our cities as they now appear to us ... familiar subjects are given revelatory new interpretations ... thought-provoking." --Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement "Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking." --Sean O''Hagan, Observer "[A] heady blend of history and theory." -- New Yorker "Fascinating ... those interested in how literature has explored urban modernity are sure to find ample food for thought." -- Publishers Weekly "Dazzling." -- Eminetra "Dazzlingly erudite." -- Chris Moss, Guardian "Elegantly written and compellingly argued ... A highly commendable, engaging, and thoroughly researched study, The Walker infuses the poetics of walking with the politics of homing." -- Maxim Shadurski, English Studies "Striking ... a poetic heft rings resoundingly throughout [Beaumont''s] commentary, justly inviting a reader''s own imagined extensions." --Patrick James Dunagan, Rain Taxi Review of Books "From start to finish a delight to read, The Walker is the beginning of wisdom in all things metro-pedestrian." --Ian Thomson, New Statesman "[ The Walker ] fascinates and informs from beginning to end ... Beaumont has positioned himself as the foremost theorist of walking working in English literary studies today." --Jeremy Withers, The Wellsian "Intriguing ... The Walker celebrates the secret, subversive life of cities and the people who pace their streets." --Jane Shilling, Daily Mail "[A] well-researched work of literary criticism." --Hannah Beckerman, Observer
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