Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760–1840 Dale Townshend

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198845669
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198845669
• Author: Dale Townshend

Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 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.

Table contents:

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

Index

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