{"product_id":"gaslight-isbn-9781681371184","title":"Gaslight","description":"\u003cb\u003eA one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGaslight\u003c\/i\u003e, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with its “auratic gaslight,” its mingling of romanticism and modernity, enlightenment and darkness. Here we find the roots of our contemporary preoccupations: gender roles and sexuality, terrorism and technology, mad scientists and serial killers, kitsch and commodification. Mustering a wealth of cultural references, Kalka draws illuminating connections between Balzac and Billy Wilder, Mickey Mouse and the arms race, the cake fights of Laurel and Hardy and Madame Bovary’s wedding cake. He brings the nineteenth century to life with all its contradictions, aspirations, and absurdities, inviting us to reexamine that era and our own, and the stories we tell ourselves about history.\"Kalka is stupendously well-read, and uses this range to make all sorts of unexpected links.\" —Stephan Speicher, \u003ci\u003eSüddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoachim Kalka\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, literary critic, and  translator of authors such as Martin Amis, Angela Carter, G.K.  Chesterton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Christopher Isherwood, and Gilbert  Sorrentino. He lives in Leipzig, Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a translator of such authors as Annemarie  Schwarzenbach, Franz Fühmann, Wolfgang Hilbig, and Klaus Hoffer. She  lives in Berlin, Germany.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302619304165,"sku":"NP9781681371184","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681371184.jpg?v=1767727892","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/gaslight-isbn-9781681371184","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}