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    Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century

     
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    Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century

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    A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.

    In Gaslight, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with its "auratic gaslight," its mingling of romanticism and modernity, enlightenment and darkness. Here we find the roots of our contemporary preoccupations: gender roles and sexuality, terrorism and technology, mad scientists and serial killers, kitsch and commodification. Mustering a wealth of cultural references, Kalka draws illuminating connections between Balzac and Billy Wilder, Mickey Mouse and the arms race, the cake fights of Laurel and Hardy and Madame Bovary's wedding cake. He brings the nineteenth century to life with all its contradictions, aspirations, and absurdities, inviting us to reexamine that era and our own, and the stories we tell ourselves about history.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781681371184
    Edition:
    Main
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    240
    Publication date:
    2017-06-06
    Publisher:
    New York Review Books
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781681371184
    Edition:
    Main
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    240
    Publication date:
    2017-06-06
    Publisher:
    New York Review Books
    Languages:
    english

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