Alice Barnaby

Light Touches

Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light - and darkness - became acutely palpable to the human sensorium; using, seeing, feeling, and being in l

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367595784
• ISBN-10: 0367595788
• Artikelnr.: 69890655

Autorenporträt

Alice Barnaby is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at Swansea University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Introduction 1. 'From these three
light
shade and colour
we construct the visible world' 2. Muslin: Concealing and Revealing 3. Mirrors: Reflection
Recognition
Remediation 4. Mood lighting: Public illuminations 5. Aesthetics and economics of daylight 6. 'Seeing with vision that feels
feeling with fingers that see' Conclusion Index