Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope & Alexander Petit, eds., The Enlightenment by Night. Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
This compendious volume proposes essays on the theme of night and darkness in what is a very long, and entirely British and Irish, eighteenth-century, stretching as it does from Rochester to Wordsworth. Some of the darkness is literal, as in David S. Reay’s and Jean-Paul Forster’s comments on the i...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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XVII-XVIII
2016
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This compendious volume proposes essays on the theme of night and darkness in what is a very long, and entirely British and Irish, eighteenth-century, stretching as it does from Rochester to Wordsworth. Some of the darkness is literal, as in David S. Reay’s and Jean-Paul Forster’s comments on the impact of street lighting in the capital, or H. J. K. Jenkins’s account of the dangers of night-time to North Sea colliers. Gerald J. Butler describes how William Herschel’s empirical probing of the... |
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