The Last of the Light: About Twilight

Author:   Peter Davidson
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9781780235103


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 November 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The Last of the Light: About Twilight


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The 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.

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Author:   Peter Davidson
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781780235103


ISBN 10:   1780235100
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   27 November 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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'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.


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Peter 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).

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