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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (Reprint Edition) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Angela Davies (Translator) Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-520-20354-2 / 0520203542 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20354-9 / 9780520203549 Wolfgang Schone, who points out that eighteenth-century painters had already aspired to achieve the effect of diffused light, describes the phenomenon as follows: The dualism of light and darkness is to a large extent cancelled: shadows lose substance, and light gains in strength.'31 At that peri |