一本温和，带给人一种平静式沉思和希望的好书

作者带领读者漫游在英国丶欧洲和北美的夜间城市的窗户风景，并重温英格兰乡村的田野小径，一起透过经典文学和画作，探讨作家诗人和艺术家怎麽诠释夜窗明灯前的意义。本书按时间顺序记载了从早期浪漫主义绘画延伸到当代小说。本书视角在地理上横跨低地国家到日本。一本围绕着点亮之窗的地景主题，表达出对艺术丶文学和人文地理相呼应的迷人见解。

本书除了探讨Thomas Hardy 丶Matthew Arnold丶Virginia Woolf丶Arthur Conan Doyle 和Kenneth Grahame等诗人作家的文学作品之外，也探讨了 19 世纪和 20 世纪的日本版画；德国浪漫主义的绘画丶诗歌和音乐作品；法国美好时代的画家之作； René Magritte的油画《光之帝国》（L’Empire des Lumières）和Edward Hopper和Linden Frederick等北美画家的绘画作品。

关於作者

Peter Davidson 是英国牛津大学 Campion Hall 的资深研究员。 曾经出版过的着作有：《The Idea of North》 (2005)和《The Last of the Light》 (2015). 

This is an art-history and English-literature lesson rolled into one, best enjoyed in the glow of your own bedside lamp, ideally with a storm raging outside. – Country Life

Davidson creates his own idiosyncratic, hybrid genre in which cultural history, nature writing and place writing are channelled through personal experience. … [he is] an excellent guide not just along pavements and footpaths but around paintings too, teasing out shades of meaning. ... Imagination and memory, the book suggests, create their own lighted windows in the darkest of journeys and have the power to change the world around us. - TLS

Erudite, companionable, and hypnotically satisfying. – Financial Times

While it's beautiful to peruse, this is no coffee-table book but a beguiling work of academia and an excellent festive offering for anyone who has walked past a lighted window on a dark evening and wondered about the goings-on inside. – The Field

There isn’t a Faber Book of Windows at Night, but Davidson is certainly the man for the job and The Lighted Window is a sort of memoir of the thought processes that would have produced one. – The Literary Review

A beautiful and timely book. – Radio 4 Open Book

A must-read if you've ever been captivated by a glimpse into another life on your evening stroll. – OX Magazine

Will evoke fond memories for any alumnus … the book will banish away winter nights while evoking the anticipation of spring and summer. – QUAD Magazine

What a brilliant notion. Peter Davidson is a passionate cultural historian and his book of night-walks casts a lovely light. A gem. - Tim Dee

Anyone who has felt the mystery, allure and sadness of lighted windows will find their perceptions heightened and new cultural vistas opened by this unusual and beautiful book. It’s both vast and intimate in scope, taut with precise seeing and capacious in its leaps of association. Davidson inhabits the paintings he writes about, moving and feeling with them until there seems no border between pictures and life. Recognition and surprise mingle as we become wanderers in the nights of Europe, Asia and America. It’s a journey to savour. - Alexandra Harris