Publication

2015 - Verso, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

121,000 words, Guess

Page Count

484 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101781687951
  • ISBN-139781781687956
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014039742
  • OCLC Control Number900609015
  • Better World Books9781781687956
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC820.9/32421
  • LCCPR830.L65 B43 2015
  • LCCDA677

Alternate Titles

  • Night walking

Description

"Nightwalking is, in both the physical and the moral meanings of the term, deviant. At night, in other words, the idea of wandering cannot be dissociated from the idea of erring - wanderring. This elision or semantic slurring is present in the final lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), where the poet offers a glimpse, for perpetuity, of Adam and Eve, after their expulsion from Paradise, entering the post-lapsarian world on foot: 'They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way.' Wandering steps. In a double sense, Adam and Eve are errant: at once itinerant and aberrant. They are condemned to a life of ceaseless, restless sinfulness. ""--

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