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

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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