Literary Illumination: The Evolution of Artificial Light in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-08/621597
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- ISBN
- 9781786832689
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph, which developed from doctoral research, examines the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and artificial illumination. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, it makes a significant contribution to understandings of the cultural impact of lighting technology. Demonstrating the relationships between these technologies and the treatment of light in literature, along with how artificial light altered perceptions of darkness, Leahy offers original chapters dedicated to firelight, candlelight, gaslight, and electric light, revealing the phenomenological properties of each, and collating a corpus of texts for each light source and environment.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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