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Literary Illumination The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature 1st Edition

Author(s)

Richard Leahy

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781786832696, 9781786832689, 9781786832702, 9781786832719

Publisher

University of Wales Press

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PDF and EPUB

Description

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual motif. Correspondingly, the book also engages with the changing nature of darkness, and how the influence of artificial light altered both public perceptions of, and behaviour within, darkness, as well as examining literary chiaroscuros. Within each of four main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light source in the long nineteenth-century – firelight, candlelight, gaslight, and electric light – the author considers the phenomenological properties of the light sources, and where their presence would be felt most strongly in the nineteenth century, before collating a corpus of texts for each light source and environment.

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Literary Illumination The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature 1st Edition

SKU: 9781786832702

Original price was: $125.00.Current price is: $24.99.

Access Literary Illumination The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature 1st Edition Now. Discount up to 90%

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Additional information

Full Title

Literary Illumination The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature 1st Edition

Author(s)

Richard Leahy

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781786832702, 9781786832689, 9781786832696, 9781786832719

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual motif. Correspondingly, the book also engages with the changing nature of darkness, and how the influence of artificial light altered both public perceptions of, and behaviour within, darkness, as well as examining literary chiaroscuros. Within each of four main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light source in the long nineteenth-century – firelight, candlelight, gaslight, and electric light – the author considers the phenomenological properties of the light sources, and where their presence would be felt most strongly in the nineteenth century, before collating a corpus of texts for each light source and environment.