Dark nights, bright lights : night, darkness and illumination in literature /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Anglia book series ; 50 Buchreihe der Anglia ; 50. Bd.
Subject:	Light and darkness in literature. Night in literature. Light and darkness in literature. Night in literature.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383342

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Other authors / contributors:	Bach, Susanne, 1963- editor. Degenring, Folkert, editor.
ISBN:	9783110415292 3110415291 9783110415308 3110415305 9783110415100 3110415100 3110415623 9783110415629
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	Night and day, light and darkness, shape our world: light signifies life, knowledge and all that is good, while darkness suggests death, ignorance and evil. And yet the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows transformations unthinkable in the light of day. The present volume examines the interconnections of night and illumination across a broad range of literary texts.
Other form:	Print version: Dark nights, bright lights. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015 9783110415100 3110415100
Standard no.:	10.1515/9783110415292

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction: Dark Nights, Bright Lights / Degenring, Folkert ; Bach, Susanne
City Nights, City Lights in London Literature of the 1890s / Goetsch, Paul
"The Hours of the Day and the Night Are Ours Equally": Dracula and the Lighting Technologies of Victorian London / Peker, Maria
"Light of Life": Gender, Place, and Knowledge in H.G. Wells' Ann Veronica / Mildorf, Jarmila
The Literary Realisation of Electric Light in the Early 20 / Leahy, Richard
Public and Private Light in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day / Ludtke, Laura E.
Serenading the Night in Benjamin Britten's Opus 31 / Gillett, Robert ; Wagner, Isabel
Darkness Visible: Night, Light, and Liminality in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Jed Rubenfeld's The Death Instinct / Heiler, Lars
The Blackout of Community: Charlotte Jones' The Dark / Butter, Stella
Genre, Gender, Mythology: Functions of Light and Darkness in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay and Thud! / Sezi, Murat
Twenty Thousand Lights Hanging from the Ceiling: Ecocatastrophe in Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles / Bach, Susanne
On Behalf of the Dark? Functionalisations of Light Pollution in Fiction / Degenring, Folkert
Index
About the Contributors.

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