1st Edition
Enlightened Nightscapes Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night
1. Introduction
Pamela F. Phillips
Part 1: Nighttime Experiments
2. Libertine Nocturnes, or The Many Marvels of the Enlightened Night
Marine Ganofsky
3. Abysms on Open View: Terrestrial Expressions of Preternatural Darkness and Heavenly Night
Kevin L. Cope
4. "One Thousand Divine Truths": Night, Darkness and the Sublime in the Poetry of Juan Meléndez Valdés
Matthieu P. Raillard
5. Shadowed Celebration: Goethe’s Klassische Walpurgisnacht and Creative Profusion
Jeffrey Bellomi
Part 2: Nocturnal Visions
6. Francisco de Goya’s Sleep of Reason and Other States of Somnolence in the Caprichos
Ana Rueda
7. The Other Side of Night: Enlightened Dreaming in Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s Beauty and the Beast (1740)
Valentine Balguerie
8. Fire at Bedtime, or the Dangers of Sleep in France (1700–1830)
Florence Fesneau
Part 3: Nocturnal Sights and Sounds
9. Early to Bed: Sleep, Artificial Light, and Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Avner Wishnitzer
10. The Uncertainty of Evening in Seduction Narratives of the Early Republic
Sarah Cullen
11. "Like a Night Without Darkness": Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810–1830)
Katelyn Clark
12. The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night
Bridget M. Marshall
Biography
Pamela F. Phillips is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
