Peter Davidson

Relics, Dreams, Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts during the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book brings together many astonishing, unfamiliar, and beautiful texts, things, and events. It creates a cartography of the secret and strange...

Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England. Surveying a wide...