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The lightscapes of 1930s fiction

2015; Wiley; Volume: 57; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/criq.12218

1467-8705

Anna Cottrell,

Night-time city culture

Critical QuarterlyVolume 57, Issue 3 p. 66-79 THE LONG 1930S The lightscapes of 1930s fiction Anna Cottrell, Anna CottrellSearch for more papers by this author Anna Cottrell, Anna CottrellSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 October 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12218Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Notes 1Elizabeth Bowen, ‘ Modern Lighting’, in People, Places, Things: Essays (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008), 26. 2Elizabeth Bowen, ‘ Out of a Book’, in The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen (London: Vintage, 1999), 53. 3Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: A Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), 9. 4Storm Jameson, Company Parade (1934; London: Virago, 1985), 305–306. 5Gerald Kersh, Night and the City (London: Michael Joseph, 1938), 12. 6W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, The Dog Beneath the Skin (London: Faber and Faber, 1935), 126. 7Norah Hoult, Apartments to Let (London: William Heinemann, 1931), 170. 8Christoph Ribbat, Flickering Light: A History of Neon (London: Reaktion, 2013). 9George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (London: Penguin, 2000), 192. 10Ibid., 233. 11Norah Hoult, Time Gentlemen! Time! (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930), 213. 12Ibid., 215. 13Walter Benjamin, ‘ One-Way Street: This Space for Rent’, in Selected Writings, vol. 1, ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 476. 14Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, ‘ An Inventory of Shimmers’, in The Affect Theory Reader (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 3. 15Steven Connor, ‘ How to Get Out of Your Head: Notes Toward a Philosophy of Mixed Bodies’, 3 (accessed online at stevenconnor.com/misexbodies.pdf). 16Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (London: Heinemann, 2000). 17Antonio Damasio, Descarthes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Putnam, 1994). For an introduction to the theory of embodied cognition, see Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 18Matthew Luckiesh, Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization (London: University of London Press, 1920), 310. 19Matthew Luckiesh, The Science of Seeing (London: Macmillan, 1937), 382. 20Ibid., v. 21A 1939 ad for London's Illuminating Engineering Society urged the public to join ‘If you are interested in lighting (and who is not?)’, in J. Stewart Dow, Light in Daily Life (London: Technical Press, 1939), v. 22See, for instance, Igor Inez, ‘Effects of Colour of Light in Nonvisual Psychological Processes’, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21 (2001), 201–202. 23Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (London: Penguin, 2000), 33. 24Ibid., 110. 25Patrick Hamilton, letter to Bruce Hamilton, April 1927. 26Patrick Hamilton, The Siege of Pleasure, in Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (London: Vintage, 2001), 252. 27Hamilton, letter to Bruce Hamilton, April 1927. 28Hamilton, The Plains of Cement, in Twenty Thousand Streets, 388. 29Ibid., 389. 30Betty Miller, Farewell Leicester Square (London: Persephone Books, 2010), 79. 31Ibid., 99. 32Ibid., 148. 33Ibid., 64. 34Ibid., 308. 35Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (London: Vintage, 2012), 44. 36Ibid., 135–6. 37Elizabeth Bowen, To the North (London: Vintage, 1999), 170. 38Ibid., 151. 39Ibid., 164. 40Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen, 170. 41Bowen, ‘ New Waves of the Future’, in People, Places, Things, 45. 42Bowen, To the North, 8–9. 43Ibid., 26. 44David Trotter, Literature in the First Media Age: Britain Between the Wars (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013), 29. 45Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (London: Vintage, 1998), 225. Volume57, Issue3Special Issue: The Long 1930sOctober 2015Pages 66-79 ReferencesRelatedInformation