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Enlightened Nightscapes - Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night (Hardcover)
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Enlightened Nightscapes - Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
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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.
Situated on the eve of the introduction of artificial lighting, the
long eighteenth century has much to say about night’s darkness
and brilliance. The eighteenth century has been bound up
epistemologically with images of light, reason, and order. Night
and day, light and darkness, reason and mystery, however, are not
necessarily at odds in the eighteenth century. In their analysis of
narratives, poetry, urban spaces, music, the visual arts, and
geological phenomena, the essays provide various frameworks to
examine the representation, treatment, and meaning of the
enlightened night. The transnational and multidisciplinary nature
of the volume presents a survey of the research currently being
done in the field of the long eighteenth-century night. This
collection contributes to an ongoing exercise that questions the
accepted definitions of the Enlightenment, and by bringing
Eighteenth-Century Studies into dialogue with Night Studies, it
enriches the critical conversation between these lines of research.
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