Enlightened Nightscapes

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through different mediums and in different geographical contexts.

Pamela F. Phillips is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

1. Introduction Part 1: Nighttime Experiments 2. Libertine Nocturnes, or The Many Marvels of the Enlightened Night 3. Abysms on Open View: Terrestrial Expressions of Preternatural Darkness and Heavenly Night 4. "One Thousand Divine Truths": Night, Darkness and the Sublime in the Poetry of Juan Meleìndez Valdeìs 5. Shadowed Celebration: Goethe's Klassische Walpurgisnacht and Creative Profusion Part 2: Nocturnal Visions 6. Francisco de Goya's Sleep of Reason and Other States of Somnolence in the Caprichos 7. The Other Side of Night: Enlightened Dreaming in Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast (1740) 8. Fire at Bedtime, or the Dangers of Sleep in France (1700-1830) Part 3: Nocturnal Sights and Sounds 9. Early to Bed: Sleep, Artificial Light, and Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul 10. The Uncertainty of Evening in Seduction Narratives of the Early Republic 11. "Like a Night Without Darkness": Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810-1830) 12. The Haunted Industrialized Nightscape: Factories, Mills, and Ironworks at Night