Walker
Walker A literary history of walking From Dickens to ZizekThere is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew…
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Walker
A literary history of walking From Dickens to ZizekThere is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont, retraces a history of the walker.From Charles Dicken's insomniac night rambles to wandering through the faceless, windswept monuments of the neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of escape, self-discovery, disappearances and potential revolution. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are.
He asks can you get lost in a crowd? Pacing stride for stride alongside such literary amblers and thinkers as Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew Breton, H G Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Matthew Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. It is polite to