Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Published by New York Review Books, New York, 2017
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Kalka, Joachim
- Publisher
- New York Review Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1681371189
- ISBN 13
- 9781681371184
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 277 grams
- Dimensions
- 14 centimeters width by 20.8 centimeters height by 1.5 centimeters depth
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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About the Author
Isabel Fargo Cole is a writer and a translator of such authors as Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Fühmann, Wolfgang Hilbig, and Klaus Hoffer. She lives in Berlin, Germany.
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