Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature
and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of
lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively
altered the treatment of light as symbol, metaphor and textual
motif. Correspondingly, the book also engages with the changing
nature of darkness, and how the influence of artificial light
altered both public perceptions of, and behaviour within, darkness,
as well as examining literary chiaroscuros. Within each of four
main chapters dedicated to the analysis of a single dominant light
source in the long nineteenth-century - firelight, candlelight,
gaslight, and electric light - the author considers the
phenomenological properties of the light sources, and where their
presence would be felt most strongly in the nineteenth century,
before collating a corpus of texts for each light source and
environment.
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