Literary illumination : the evolution of artificial light in nineteenth-century literature /
An investigation into the connections between illumination and literature; exploring the spaces between light and dark symbolism through an analysis of artificial light.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press
2018.
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| Series: | Intersections in literature and science.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.14491715 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Lightscape; Chapter 1: Firelight; 1.1: Nineteenth-Century Firelight: Hearth, Home and Industry; 1.2: Gaskell, Dickens, Fire and Reverie: The Domestic and the Individual; 1.3: Variable Flames in Urban Domesticity; 1.4: Fire and Reverie in Industrial Desperation; Chapter 2: Candlelight; 2.1: A Brief History of Candlelight: An Ancient Light in the Nineteenth Century; 2.2: Candle Theory and its Symbolic Value in Literature; 2.3: The Candle and the Literary Detective
- 2.4: The Candle and the Gothic Unknown2.5: The Candle and Ambiguity of Mental States; Chapter 3: Gaslight; 3.1: Gaslight in the Nineteenth Century; 3.2: The Networked City: Gaslight on Literary Streets; 3.3: The Theatre: Gaslight's Stage; 3.4: The Department Store: Gaslight's Dressing Room; Chapter 4: Electric Light; 4.1: Electric Light in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution and Revolution; 4.2: Jules Verne's prophetic electric light of the 1860s and 1870s; 4.3: The Transient Light of H.G. Wells's Fin-de-Siècle; 4.4: Electric Light 1900-14: Realisation and Realism; Summary and Conclusions
- The Lightscape of the Early Twentieth Century: Why Stop Here?The Key Ideas: Blurring of Archetypes, Modernity and the Individual; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover