Main entry:

Townshend, Dale, author.

Title & Author:

Gothic antiquity : history, romance, and the architectural imagination, 1760-1840 / Dale Townshend.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Description:

xviii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical (pages 357-405) references and index.
Introduction : Gothic antiquity, Gothic architecture, Gothic romance -- 1. Associationist aesthetics and the foundations of the architectural imagination -- 2. Horace Walpole's enchanted castles -- 3. From 'Castles in the Air' to the topographical Gothic : Locating Ann Radcliffe's architectural imagination -- 4. Improvement, repair, and the uses of the Gothic past : architecture, chivalry, and romance -- 5. 'Venerable Ruin' or 'Nurseries of superstition' : Ecclesiastical architecture and the Gothic literary aesthetic -- 6. Antiquarian Gothic Romance : castles, ruins and visions of Gothic antiquity -- Conclusion : from the Gothic to the Medieval : historiography, romanticism, and the trajectories of the architectural imagination.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"[This book] provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past-a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated."-- Book jacket

ISBN:

9780198845669 (hardback)
0198845669

Subject:

Gothic revival (Architecture)
Gothic revival (Literature) History and criticism.
Architecture, Gothic, in literature.
Architecture and literature Great Britain History 18th century.
Architecture and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Néo-gothique (Architecture)
Littérature frénétique Histoire et critique.
Architecture gothique dans la littérature.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture et littérature Histoire 19e siècle.
Literature.
Architecture and literature
Gothic revival (Literature)
Architecture and literature History 18th century.
Architecture and literature History 19th century.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307834
Call No.: BIB 253311
Status: Available