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Literary Illumination: The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth Century Literature (Intersections in Literature and Science)

Literary Illumination: The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth Century Literature (Intersections in Literature and Science)

Richard Leahy
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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.
 
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Release
February 15, 2019
ISBN 13
9781786832689

Literary Illumination: The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth Century Literature (Intersections in Literature and Science)

Richard Leahy
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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.
 
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Release
February 15, 2019
ISBN 13
9781786832689

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