Darkness divides opinion. Some are frightened of the dark, or at
least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it
appears to stand for. Others are drawn to its strange domain,
delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of
folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the
unknown. The history of attitudes to what we cannot quite make out,
in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations, challenges the
notion that the world is possible to fully comprehend. Nina Edwards
explores darkness as both physical feature and cultural image,
through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of
the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or
fog, twilight and dawn, the point or period of obscuration and
clarification. Taking readers through different historical periods,
she interrogates humanity's various attempts to harness and
suppress the dark, from our early use of fire to the later
discovery of electricity. She reveals how the idea of darkness
pervades art, literature, religion and every aspect of our everyday
language. Darkness: A Cultural History shows us how darkness has
fed our imagination. Whether a shifting concept or real physical
presence, it always conveys complex meaning.
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