Literary Illumination : The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Lightscape -- Chapter 1: Firelight -- 1.1: Nineteenth-Century Firelight: Hearth, Home and Industry -- 1.2: Gaskell, Dickens, Fire and Reverie: The Domestic and the Individual -- 1.3: Variable Flames in Urban Domesticity -- 1.4: Fire and Reverie in Industrial Desperation -- Chapter 2: Candlelight -- 2.1: A Brief History of Candlelight: An Ancient Light in the Nineteenth Century -- 2.2: Candle Theory and its Symbolic Value in Literature -- 2.3: The Candle and the Literary Detective -- 2.4: The Candle and the Gothic Unknown -- 2.5: The Candle and Ambiguity of Mental States -- Chapter 3: Gaslight -- 3.1: Gaslight in the Nineteenth Century -- 3.2: The Networked City: Gaslight on Literary Streets -- 3.3: The Theatre: Gaslight's Stage -- 3.4: The Department Store: Gaslight's Dressing Room -- Chapter 4: Electric Light -- 4.1: Electric Light in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution and Revolution -- 4.2: Jules Verne's prophetic electric light of the 1860s and 1870s -- 4.3: The Transient Light of H. G. Wells's Fin-de-Siècle -- 4.4: Electric Light 1900-14: Realisation and Realism -- Summary and Conclusions -- The Lightscape of the Early Twentieth Century: Why Stop Here? -- The Key Ideas: Blurring of Archetypes, Modernity and the Individual -- Notes -- Bibliography.

An investigation into the connections between illumination and literature; exploring the spaces between light and dark symbolism through an analysis of artificial light.

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