Lighted Window, The: Evening Walks Remembered

The book explores the theme of the lighted window in literature, art, and cultural studies, tracing its influence from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction and across different geographical locations. It examines familiar lighted windows in English literature, explores the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw, and Samuel Palmer, and considers Japanese prints, German romanticism, Proust, the French belle époque, René Magrittes' LEmpire des Lumières, and North American painters.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 224 pages
\n Publication date: 05 November 2021
\n Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, and desire are just a few of the themes that the mesmerizing motif of the lighted window in literature and art evokes. In this innovative blend of place-writing, memoir, and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe, and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England.

The book spans a wide range of material, chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It features familiar lighted windows in English literature, including the works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold, as well as the novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Kenneth Grahame. It also examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw, and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. Additionally, it considers Japanese prints from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German romanticism in painting, poetry, and music, Proust and the painters of the French belle époque, René Magrittes' LEmpire des Lumières, and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and Linden Frederick.

By interpreting the interactions of art, literature, and geography around this evocative motif, Peter Davidson demonstrates how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.

\n Weight: 780g\n
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 30 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781851245147\n \n