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Lighted Window, The - Evening Walks Remembered (Hardcover)
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Lighted Window, The - Evening Walks Remembered (Hardcover)
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Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the
themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in
literature and art. In this innovative combination of
place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us
on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe
and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England.
Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends,
chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary
fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It
features familiar lighted windows in English literature (in the
works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold and in the
novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kenneth Grahame)
and examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson
Grimshaw and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. It also considers Japanese
prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; German
romanticism in painting, poetry and music; Proust and the painters
of the French belle epoque; Rene Magritte's 'L'Empire des
Lumieres'; and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and
Linden Frederick. By interpreting the interactions of art,
literature and geography around this evocative motif, Peter
Davidson shows how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of
moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.
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