LEADER 05206nam 2200721 450 001 9910823720603321 005 20230807193901.0 010 $a3-11-041529-1 010 $a3-11-041562-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110415292 035 $a(CKB)3710000000496993 035 $a(EBL)4179754 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12572616 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11524095 035 $a(PQKB)11030829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4179754 035 $a(DE-B1597)449993 035 $a(OCoLC)930987212 035 $a(OCoLC)979754177 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110415292 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4179754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11123874 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL876207 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000496993 100 $a20151223h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDark nights, bright lights $enight, darkness, and illumination in literature /$fedited by Susanne Bach and Folkert Degenring ; contributors, Susanne Bach [and eleven others] 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 225 1 $aBuchreihe der ANGLIA=$aANGLIA Book Series,$x0340-5435 ;$vVolume 50 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-057862-X 311 $a3-11-041510-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tTable of Contents --$tIntroduction: Dark Nights, Bright Lights /$rDegenring, Folkert / Bach, Susanne --$tCity Nights, City Lights in London Literature of the 1890's /$rGoetsch, Paul --$t"The Hours of the Day and the Night Are Ours Equally": Dracula and the Lighting Technologies of Victorian London /$rPeker, Maria --$t"Light of Life": Gender, Place, and Knowledge in H.G. Wells' Ann Veronica /$rMildorf, Jarmila --$tThe Literary Realisation of Electric Light in the Early 20th Century: Artificial Illumination in H. G. Wells and E.M. Forster /$rLeahy, Richard --$tPublic and Private Light in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day /$rLudtke, Laura E. --$tSerenading the Night in Benjamin Britten's Opus 31 /$rGillett, Robert / Wagner, Isabel --$tDarkness Visible: Night, Light, and Liminality in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Jed Rubenfeld's The Death Instinct /$rHeiler, Lars --$tThe Blackout of Community: Charlotte Jones' The Dark /$rButter, Stella --$tGenre, Gender, Mythology: Functions of Light and Darkness in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay and Thud! /$rSezi, Murat --$tTwenty Thousand Lights Hanging from the Ceiling: Ecocatastrophe in Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles /$rBach, Susanne --$tOn Behalf of the Dark? Functionalisations of Light Pollution in Fiction /$rDegenring, Folkert --$tIndex --$tAbout the Contributors 330 $aLight and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil. A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an 'other of the day', only when it is at least partially illuminated. The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them. 410 0$aBuchreihe der Anglia ;$vVolume 50. 606 $aLight and darkness in literature 606 $aNight in literature 610 $aAnglophone Literature. 610 $aIllumination. 610 $aLight. 610 $aNight. 615 0$aLight and darkness in literature. 615 0$aNight in literature. 676 $a809.915 686 $aEC 5410$2rvk 702 $aBach$b Susanne$f1963- 702 $aDegenring$b Folkert 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823720603321 996 $aDark nights, bright lights$94015234 997 $aUNINA