Literary Illumination : The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Intersections in Literature and Science
ISBN-10
1786832682
ISBN-13
9781786832689
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2018
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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An investigation into the connections between illumination and literature; exploring the spaces between light and dark symbolism through an analysis of artificial light.
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 behavior within, darkness, as well as examining literary 'chiaroscuros'. Within each of four main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light source within 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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