Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth CenturyWolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture. |
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Académie des Sciences ancien régime Anwendung der Bühnenbeleuchtung arc lighting Archiv für Kunst Argand burner Argand lamp artificial light audience auditorium baroque Berlin Bourdais bourgeois bright brighter brightly burning candle chandelier coal colours combustion contemporary Cornelius Gurlitt created darkened darkness developed diorama display distance drawing-room Edison effect eighteenth century electric arc electric light elektrische Entwicklung und Anwendung explosion festive illumination filament fire fireworks French fuel gas flame gas industry gas-works gaslight gasometer Gaston Bachelard glass Gottfried Semper Herlaut houses illuminated image illusion incandescent Kunst und Geschichte L'Eclairage des rues lampshades lantern smashing Lebon lighting tower London Lumière électrique natural night nineteenth century oil-lamp painting panorama pipes police produced public lighting Quoted from ibid reflector réverbères Revolution rues à Paris scene seventeenth shades shops space stage lighting street lanterns street lighting Sun Tower supply switch technical theatre thermolamp tion torch wick Winsor