Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night

Author:   Pamela F. Phillips (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367529673


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 April 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Pamela F. Phillips (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780367529673


ISBN 10:   036752967
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1. Introduction Part 1: Nighttime Experiments 2. Libertine Nocturnes, or The Many Marvels of the Enlightened Night 3. Abysms on Open View: Terrestrial Expressions of Preternatural Darkness and Heavenly Night 4. ""One Thousand Divine Truths"": Night, Darkness and the Sublime in the Poetry of Juan Meleìndez Valdeìs 5. Shadowed Celebration: Goethe’s Klassische Walpurgisnacht and Creative Profusion Part 2: Nocturnal Visions 6. Francisco de Goya’s Sleep of Reason and Other States of Somnolence in the Caprichos 7. The Other Side of Night: Enlightened Dreaming in Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s Beauty and the Beast (1740) 8. Fire at Bedtime, or the Dangers of Sleep in France (1700–1830) Part 3: Nocturnal Sights and Sounds 9. Early to Bed: Sleep, Artificial Light, and Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul 10. The Uncertainty of Evening in Seduction Narratives of the Early Republic 11. ""Like a Night Without Darkness"": Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810–1830) 12. The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night"

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Pamela F. Phillips is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

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