Loading...
Literary Illumination
Leahy, Richard
Leahy, Richard
Advisors
Editors
Other Contributors
Affiliation
EPub Date
Publication Date
2018-08-20
Submitted Date
Collections
Other Titles
Abstract
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.
Citation
Leahy, R. (2018). Literary Illumination: The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Cardiff, United Kingdom: University of Wales Press
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Journal
Research Unit
DOI
PubMed ID
PubMed Central ID
Type
Book
Language
en
Description
Series/Report no.
ISSN
EISSN
ISBN
9781786832689