American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature

Author: Kerry Dean Carso

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2014-11-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1783161612

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American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the impact British Gothic novels and historical romances had on American art and architecture in the Romantic era. Key figures include Thomas Jefferson, Washington Allston, Alexander Jackson Davis, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Thomas Cole, Edwin Forrest and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne articulated the subject of this book when he wrote that he could understand Sir Walter Scott’s romances better after viewing Scott’s Gothic Revival house Abbotsford, and he understood the house better for having read the romances. This study investigates this symbiotic relationship between the arts and Gothic literature to reveal new interpretative possibilities. Contents Introduction Chapter One. Gothic Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Narratives Chapter Two. ‘Banditti Mania’: The Gothic Haunting of Washington Allston Chapter Three. ‘Arranging the Trap Doors’: The Gothic Revival Castles of Alexander Jackson Davis Chapter Four. Old Dwellings Transmogrified: The Homes of James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving Chapter Five. Gothic Castles in the Landscape: Thomas Cole, Sir Walter Scott And the Hudson River School of Painting Chapter Six. The Theatrical Spectacle of Medieval Revival: Edwin Forrest’s Fonthill Castle Conclusion. ‘Clap It Into a Romance:’ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Gothic Houses

Imperial Gothic
Imperial Gothic

Author: G. A. Bremner

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300187038

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Traces the global reach & influence of the Gothic Revival throughout Britain's empire. Focusing on religious buildings, this book examines the reinvigoration of the colonial & missionary agenda of the Church of England & its relationship with the rise of Anglian ecclesiology.

Gothic Britain
Gothic Britain

Author: William Hughes

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1786832348

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Coverage of canonical and less-explored texts in fiction, film and museology. Innovative vision of how Gothic evokes the regions of Great Britain. The first work to consider Gothic and the regional experience at length.

Architecture as Cosmology
Architecture as Cosmology

Author: John Shannon Hendrix

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781433113161

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Architecture as Cosmology examines the precedents, interpretations, and influences of the architecture of one of the great buildings in the history of architecture, Lincoln Cathedral. It analyzes the origin and development of its architectural forms, which were to a great extent unprecedented and were very influential in the development of English Gothic architecture and in conceptions of architecture to the present day. Architecture as Cosmology emphasizes the relation of the architectural forms to medieval philosophy, focusing on the writings of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1235-53). The architecture is seen as a text of the philosophy, cosmology, and theology of medieval English culture. This book should be useful to anyone interested in architecture, architectural history, architectural theory, Gothic architecture, and medieval philosophy.

Gothic Architecture
Gothic Architecture

Author: Louis Grodecki

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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A study of the architectural style that dominated European buildings for more than four hundred years examines the constructional and aesthetic characteristics of the most magnificent creations.

The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture
The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture

Author: John Shannon Hendrix

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2012-06-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 178042891X

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This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. The English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit.

Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300
Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300

Author: Paul Williamson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780300074529

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This study examines the development of Gothic sculpture throughout Europe. It discusses the most famous monuments, such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens and Reims, Westminster Abbey and the Siena Duomo, and less familiar buildings in France, England, Italy, Germany, Spain and Scandinavia.