Abstract
ABSTRACT The lighting of Paris underwent the most radical transformation in its history between the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. In turn, new degrees of brightness, colours, effects and rituals found their way into the literary imagination. This article specifically discusses literary scenes where lighting technologies - candlelight, oil light, gaslight - accompany depictions of emotions. I argue that lighting was a narrative device to generate tension, to stage certain emotions, to guide the reader's attention, and to depict interior emotional states. We will find that literary analysis offers insights into the connections between new technologies and the history of the emotions.
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