Enlightened Nightscapes

Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night
Herausgeber: Phillips, Pamela F.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 229mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780367529697
• ISBN-10: 0367529696
• Artikelnr.: 71904864

Autorenporträt

Pamela F. Phillips is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Nighttime Experiments 2. Libertine Nocturnes, or
The Many Marvels of the Enlightened Night 3. Abysms on Open View:
Terrestrial Expressions of Preternatural Darkness and Heavenly Night 4.
"One Thousand Divine Truths": Night, Darkness and the Sublime in the Poetry
of Juan Meleìndez Valdeìs 5. Shadowed Celebration: Goethe's Klassische
Walpurgisnacht and Creative Profusion Part 2: Nocturnal Visions 6.
Francisco de Goya's Sleep of Reason and Other States of Somnolence in the
Caprichos 7. The Other Side of Night: Enlightened Dreaming in
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast (1740) 8.
Fire at Bedtime, or the Dangers of Sleep in France (1700-1830) Part 3:
Nocturnal Sights and Sounds 9. Early to Bed: Sleep, Artificial Light, and
Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul 10. The Uncertainty of Evening
in Seduction Narratives of the Early Republic 11. "Like a Night Without
Darkness": Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810-1830) 12.
The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at
Night