A series of seminars at the University of Bergamo on light in relation to the international thematic Socrates network of Acume 2 saw the birth of presentations that are distant ancestors of the
papers here. Among the topics are aspects of optics in the 17th century, discursive intersections on the subject of light in English Renaissance literature, notes on representations of light by
Novalis for a treatise he never wrote, the light of memory in Charlotte Bront禱's mature fiction, epiphanies of light from Rapha禱lle Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea, the visuality of the text,
the psychiatric eye between biology and society during the 19th century, the enlightened photographical practice of four contemporary British artists, and physics as photics or the light of
relativity. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
