· As early as the 12th century, the nightwalker appeared in a nervously extended list of the capital’s social evils: “Actors, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty-boys Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city/5(57). · Matthew Beaumont’s exhaustive nocturnal history of Britain’s capital leads readers to some previously inaccessible places –perhaps even to some dark passages in their own heads. Since the late 19th Century, fear of violence and crime has tended to dissuade those who might otherwise wander our cities at night/5.
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London. ISBN Author: Matthew Beaumont. Publisher: Verso. Guideline Price: £ Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today—home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and. Nightwalking review – a nocturnal history of London. Bursting with learning and pulsing with life, Matthew Beaumont’s survey of writers from Chaucer to Dickens explores the city’s seamier side.
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