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Nightwalking : a nocturnal history of London, Chaucer to Dickens
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Nightwalking : a nocturnal history of London, Chaucer to Dickens

by Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

This literary history explores London after dark before the age of electricity, tracing the nocturnal wanderings of writers such as Shakespeare, Blake and Dickens. It analyses how the nighttime city inspired literature and reflected stark social divisions.

Accession 31362 ISBN 9781781687956 Publisher Verso (Firm : London, England)
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Before the age of the gas lamp, London at night was a different place, home to the lost, the vagrant and the insomniac. Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet. -- Trove

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