Literary Illumination : The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Name: Literary Illumination
Brand: University of Wales Press
SKU: 9781786832689
Price: 11700 KES
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ISBN: 9781786832689

by Richard Leahy

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Format Hardback

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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