| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- Walker London ; New York : Verso, 2020 9781788738941 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020024743 |
| ISBN | 9781788738910 |
| ISBN | 1788738918 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
