Nightwalking keyword-quintet Has the nation-state outlived its

Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role

what can we do to stop the tide

This spectacle would be familiar to Aristotle

On the current battlefield of cultural criticism and production

On the planetary scale

Nightwalking keyword-quintet Has the nation-state outlived itsIn 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