Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope & Alexander Pettit, eds., The Enlightenment by Night. Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Serge Soupel, Kevin L. Cope & Alexander Pettit, eds., The Enlightenment by Night. Essays on After-Dark Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
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This compendious volume proposes essays on the theme of night and darkness in what is a very long, and entirely British and Irish, eighteenth-century, stretching as it does from Rochester to Wordsworth. Some of the darkness is literal, as in David S. Reay’s and Jean-Paul Forster’s comments on the impact of street lighting in the capital, or H. J. K. Jenkins’s account of the dangers of night-time to North Sea colliers. Gerald J. Butler describes how William Herschel’s empirical probing of the ...
Creator
Hopes, Jeffrey
Publisher
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII
Date
2016-08-08
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info:eu-repo/semantics/review
review
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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.558
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/558
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en
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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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