Literary illumination : the evolution of artificial light in nineteenth-century literature /: the evolution of artificial light in nineteenth-century literature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Leahy.
• Authors: Leahy, Richard
• 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
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.034; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Light and darkness in literature; Littérature -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Lumière et ténèbres dans la littérature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Light and darkness in literature; Literature, Modern; Beleuchtung; Dunkelheit; Helligkeit; Literatur; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786832696; 1786832690; 9781786832702; 1786832704
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2018).
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