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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A Nocturnal Timeline -- The Nocturnal Eighteenth Century -- Enlightening Night Studies -- The Chapters -- Notes -- Part I: Nighttime Experiments -- Chapter 2: Libertine Nocturnes, or The Many Marvels of the Enlightened Night -- Introduction -- Nocturnal Marvels, Nocturnal Revels -- Curiouser and Curiouser: The Nocturnal Wonderland -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Chapter 3: Abysms on Open View: Terrestrial Expressions of Preternatural Darkness and Heavenly Night -- The Surprising Entry into Night -- More than the Sum of Parts: Pebbles of Information -- Unseen Causes for Mammoth Effects -- Settings and Theaters -- Seeing is More than Believing: Optical Effects -- Fascinating Rhythms: The Tempo of Geologic Change -- The Sun Never Rises on Night's Empire -- The Clock-Free Personality -- Notes -- Chapter 4: "One Thousand Divine Truths": Night, Darkness and the Sublime in the Poetry of Juan Meléndez Valdés -- Night and the Sublime -- Night as Solace |
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Night as Part of the Deist Cycle -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Shadowed Celebration: Goethe's Klassische Walpurgisnacht and Creative Profusion -- Introduction -- A Dark Milieu -- Walpurgis Nights -- Notes -- Part II: Nocturnal Visions -- Chapter 6: Francisco de Goya's Sleep of Reason and Other States of Somnolence in the Caprichos -- Introduction -- Sleep and Somnolence in the Caprichos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Other Side of Night: Enlightened Dreaming in Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast (1740) -- The Rewriting of Night |
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Down the Layered Dreamscape: Dreams within a Dream -- The Dream of Another Enlightenment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Fire at Bedtime, or the Dangers of Sleep in France (1700-1830) -- An Informative Engraving -- The Nocturnal Fire Glorified by History Painting -- The Libertine Conflagration of the Senses and Imagination -- The Patriotic Flame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III: Nocturnal Sights and Sounds -- Chapter 9: Early to Bed: Sleep, Artificial Light, and Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul -- Light and Sleep -- Sunset -- The Cost-Effectiveness of Early Sleep |
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Celebrating Light at Night -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10: The Uncertainty of Evening in Seduction Narratives of the Early Republic -- Seduction and the Evening Time -- Not Doing Exactly Right -- Great Good Places -- Mask of Love -- Rambling about in the Dusk -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11: "Like a Night without Darkness": Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810-1830) -- The Piano Nocturne -- Field's Early Nocturnes and Chopin's Op. 9 Trois Nocturnes pour le Pianoforte -- Chopin's Nightscape -- The Musical Salon and a Circle of Colleagues -- Notes |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 12: The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000862294 |
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1000862291 |
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