# Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London

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- Authors: [Matt Beaumont](https://www.bookquiver.com/matt-beaumont)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-04-12

## Description

In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations; the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate rub shoulders.

## Editions

### Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London

- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-17-8478-378-5
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2016-04-12
- Language: en_GB