At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic
style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture,
associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages,
was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. This lucid
account unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic held for its
many reinventors - from the political uses of Gothic history in the
17th century to the Houses of Parliament in the 19th century.
Gothic, however, was more than just buildings: continually
reinvented, it has taken the form of poetry and fiction, of
painting and sculpture, of movies and video games, of Gothic music
and punk. Gothic became a dominant cultural and architectural force
not only in 19th-century Britain, but across Europe, the USA and in
the British Empire. This book deals comprehensively with all
aspects of the Gothic revival. (Kirkus UK)
At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic
style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture,
associated with the social and cultural ideals of the Middle Ages,
was seen as a means of remaking the modern world. In this lucid
exposition, Chris Brooks unravels the layers of meaning that Gothic
held for its many reinventors, from the political uses of Gothic
history in the seventeenth century to Barry and Pugin's Houses of
Parliament in the mid-nineteenth. Yet the Gothic revival is not
just manifest in buildings continually recreated; it has taken the
form of poetry and fiction, of painting and sculpture, of movies
and video games, of Gothic music and Gothic punk. This is the first
book to deal comprehensively with the whole scope of the Gothic
Revival.
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