Matthew Beaumont is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Department of English at University College, London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and has edited Edward Bellamy”s Looking Backward for Oxford World”s Classics.
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Matthew Beaumont: Adventures in Realism
Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary theory, the significance of technology and the v …
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Matthew Beaumont: Nightwalking
‘Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night, ‘ wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to th …
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H. G. Wells: Invisible Man
‘The man’s become inhuman … He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.’One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentri …
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H. G. Wells: Invisible Man
‘The man’s become inhuman … He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.’One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentri …
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Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward 2000-1887
‘No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.’Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-sicle Boston, plunges into …
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Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward 2000-1887
‘No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.’Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-sicle Boston, plunges into …
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Patrick Hamilton: Gorse Trilogy
‘I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific’ Sarah Waters’If you were looking to fly from Dicken …
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Dr Matthew Beaumont: Lev Shestov
The Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century. An important …
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Matthew Beaumont: The Walker
Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and t …
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Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance
‘art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake’In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a di …
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Gregory Dart & Matthew Beaumont: Restless Cities
The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a ‘city-symphony’ to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities tra …
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Terry Eagleton: The Task of the Critic
Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deep …
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Matthew Beaumont: How We Walk
You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait ref …
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