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Author:   Richard Leahy
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786832689

ISBN 10:   1786832682
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One: Firelight 1.1 Nineteenth Century Firelight: Hearth, Home and Industry 1.2 Gaskell, Dickens, Fire and Reverie 1.3 Variable Flames in Urban Domesticity 1.4 Fire and Reverie in Industrial Desperation Chapter Two: Candlelight 2.1 A Brief History of Candlelight 2.2. Candle Theory and its Symbolic Value in Literature 2.3 The Candle and the Literary Detective 2.4 The Candle and the Gothic Unknown 2.5 The Candle and Ambiguity of Mental States Chapter Three: Gaslight 3.1 Gaslight in the Nineteenth Century 3.2 The Networked City: Gaslight on Literary Streets 3.3 The Theatre: Gaslight’s Stage 3.4 The Department Store: Gaslight’s Dressing Room Chapter Four: Electric Light 4.1 Electric Light in the Nineteenth Century 4.2 Jules Verne’s prophetic electric light of the 1860s and 70s 4.3 The Transient Light of H.G. Wells’s Fin-de-Siècle 4.4 Electric Light 1900-1914: Realisation and Realism Summary and Conclusions

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