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OverviewThe Last of the Light is a meditation on twilight in the Western arts and imagination, in thought, painting and literature. We enter a multifaceted twilight world, filled with the gloom haunted by Romantic poets and painters and the twilight lives of minority and 'overshadowed' communities. The melancholy of smoky English autumn evenings is balanced by the midnight sun of northern European summers; the oppressive heat of August in mid-twentieth-century Spain is ranged against the shadowy grandeur of winter in London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter DavidsonPublisher: Reaktion Books Imprint: Reaktion Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.816kg ISBN: 9781780235103ISBN 10: 1780235100 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 27 November 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'What an astonishing book this is: a cartography of dusk, an illumination of twilight as it has found its ways into the art, literature, dreams, moods and metaphors of Europe and beyond. Beautiful and subtle in its tracings, it combines memoir, memory, place-writing and cultural history by degrees so fine as to be imperceptible.' - Robert Macfarlane, author of Landmarks, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot and Mountains of the Mind. Author InformationPeter Davidson is Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He has taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Leiden and Warwick. He is the author of a book of essays about northern culture, Distance and Memory (2013), a collection of verse, The Palace of Oblivion (2008), and The Idea of North (2004, also from Reaktion). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |