American Gothic art and architecture in the age of Romantic literature / Kerry Dean Carso.

Main entry:

Carso, Kerry Dean, author.

Title & Author:

American Gothic art and architecture in the age of Romantic literature / Kerry Dean Carso.

Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2014.
©2014

Description:

xviii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Gothic Literary Studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-234) and index.
Gothic Monticello: Thomas Jefferson's garden narratives -- 'Banditti Mania': the gothic haunting of Washington Allston -- 'Arranging the trap doors': the gothic revival castles of Alexander Jackson Davis -- Old dwellings transmogrified: the homes of James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving -- Gothic castles in the landscape: Thomas Cole, Sir Walter Scott and the Hudson River School of Painting -- The theatrical spectacle of medieval revival: Edwin Forrest's Fonthill Castle -- Conclusion. 'Clap It Into a romance:' Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic houses.

Summary:

"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"--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781783161607 (hardback)
1783161604 (hardback)
e-ISBN
9781783161614

Subject:

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English Influence.
Architecture, Gothic United States.
Art, Gothic United States.
Architecture gothique États-Unis.
Art gothique États-Unis.
Architecture, Gothic.
Art, Gothic.
United States.

Added entries:

Gothic literary studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289775
Call No.: BIB 232402
Status: Available

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