New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950

by William Chapman Sharpe

As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glittering skyscrapers. The advent of artificial lighting revolutionized the urban night, creating not only new forms of life and leisure, but also new ways of perceiving the nocturnal experience. New York Nocturne...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133247
• ISBN13: 9780691133249
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.2"