1st Edition
Light Touches Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900
By Alice Barnaby
Copyright 2017
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light – and darkness – became acutely palpable to the human sensorium; using, seeing, feeling, and being in light were now matters of intense personal and... Read more
List of Figures Introduction 1. ‘From these three, light, shade and colour, we construct the visible world’ 2. Muslin: Concealing and Revealing 3. Mirrors: Reflection, Recognition, Remediation 4. Mood lighting: Public illuminations 5. Aesthetics and economics of daylight 6. ‘Seeing with vision that feels, feeling with fingers that see’ Conclusion Index
Biography
Alice Barnaby is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at Swansea University, UK.
