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The Enlightenment by Night Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth CenturyEdited by Serge Soupel Kevin L. Cope Alexander Pettit
LC 2007006968 ISBN-10: 0-404-64859-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64859-6 Cloth $174.50
AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, No. 59
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What was night in the eighteenth century? The most general answer, according to the essayists represented in this collection, is activity, although energy or purpose might be closer to the mark. Night here is depicted as a perfect topic for the period under consideration: the busy nightthe populous nightis preeminently an eighteenth-century phenomenon. The Age of Enlightenment saw, literally, the publicizing and popularizing of night and thus its availability for numerous representational purposes.
The Enlightenment by Night broadly explores the corporate sense of long-eighteenth-century busy-ness, in discussions on topics ranging from the effect of factories and new lighting sources on nighttime productivity to the celebratory use of fireworks, from the darkness that registered as threat in the work of William Blake to the playful confounding of day and night, light and dark in Henry Fieldings Tom Jones. Trawling through notions of heaven and hell, the literal facts of meteors and coal mines, and spiritual experiences of blindness and elucidation, The Enlightenment by Night will be recognized by literary scholars and cultural historians alike as a uniquely interdisciplinary study.
Contents
Part I
Art After Dark: Fine Art at Night
Elisabeth Dtis, The Night Is Far Spent: A Few Pictorial Representations of Reading, Light, and Darkness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Brbel Czennia, Night Skies Enlightened: Fireworks as Art, Science, Recreation, and Collective Symbol
Muriel Adrien, Light and Shade in Wright of Derbys Paintings
Part II
Settings After Sunset
Jean Dixsaut, Sun and Night in Tom Jones, Containing a Hint or Two Concerning the Literal and the Figurative
Jean-Paul Forster, Lighting and Night and Darkness at Noon
Alexander Pettit, Mistakes of a Night: Or, Who Does What with Whom, When (and Why) in Eighteenth-Century Pornography
Part III
Exotic Evening Spaces: Night in Remarkable Locations
Gerald J. Butler, The Night Sky of the Enlightenment, William Herschels Disposition Toward the Empirical, and Profundity
Kevin L. Cope, Making Darkness Visible Again: Graves, Caverns, Meteors, and More
David S. Reay, Night-Lights in Perspective: British Lifestyles in the Eighteenth Century and Associated Greenhouse Gas Emissions
H. J. K. Jenkins, Night in the North Sea and the Feasibility of Samuel Johnsons London
Part IV
Nighttime Lifestyles
Allan Ingram, The Dark Side of the Moon: Anti-Illumination in the Poetry of Pope
Florence Lautel-Ribstein, A Libertines Protracted Night: Rochester Redivivus ac Gallice Redditus
Yannick Deschamps, Instruments of Darkness in the Enlightenment: Witches in Daniel Defoes Occult Treatises
Anne Berton, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, a Romance: Mary Shelleys Elegy for a Lost (K)night
Part V
The Midnight Mind: Psychology and Epistemology at Night
Kevin Barry, Learned Blindness: Irish Counter-Enlightenment
Patrick Menneteau, William Blake and the Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Toward a Reassessment of the Jungian Contribution
Part VI
Darkening Literature
Brean Hammond, Pope and Young on Night
Hlne Dachez, The night flies apace: Darkness and Elucidation in The Monk
Jens Martin Gurr, The Enlightening Powers of Night: Nocturnal Conversions in The Prelude
Part VII
The Limitless Depths of Night: The End of Visible Obstacles
John A. Baker, Is There a Youngian Night?
Dirk F. Pamann and Hermann J. Real, Fiat Nox: A Tale of a Tub and the Biblical Account of Genesis Under Erasure
Andrew Varney, The Dark Desire for Narrative: Night in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Afterword Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The enlightenment by night : essays on after-dark culture in the long eighteenth century / edited by Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope, and Alexander Pettit.
p. cm. — (AMS studies in the eighteenth century, ISSN 0196-6561 ; no. 59)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-404-64859-6 (acid-free paper)
1. English literature—18th century—History and criticism.
2. Light and darkness in literature.
3. Night in literature.
4. Enlightenment.
I. Soupel, Serge.
II. Cope, Kevin Lee.
III. Pettit, Alexander, 1958–
PR442.E56 2007
820.9'33—dc22 2007006968
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