Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 086547544X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 438 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don't finish this book This book was excellent, and would have had a fifth star had it not been for the last horrible chapter. Lacking the structure and finesse of the previous text (deadline panic?), the final chapter, which covers the most recent gothic trends, overlooks much obviously important contemporary gothic work. Perhaps the most overlooked item is Neil . cbryant69@aol.com or Clint Bryant said Hines investigates why we love to be afraid of the dark!. Using all his powers of perception Richard Davenport-Hines draws the black curtains back and reveals why humans have this odd fascination with anything gothic. Though insightful and often thorough to a painful degree, Hines seems to hit all the highlights in what is a most difficult topic to cover completely. Far from objective Hines gives h. A Customer said A fascinating subject that deserves better. As a historian & a goth I so looked forward to this book. While it started out interesting, the closer it got to the "A fascinating subject that deserves better" according to A Customer. As a historian & a goth I so looked forward to this book. While it started out interesting, the closer it got to the 20th c. (my area of expertise) the more flaws I found in his research. I joked that he must have typed in "gothic" on yahoo & printed out everything that came up then I looked in the footnotes. They are filled with website cit. 0th c. (my area of expertise) the more flaws I found in his research. I joked that he must have typed in "gothic" on yahoo & printed out everything that came up then I looked in the footnotes. They are filled with website cit
A seminal history of the Gothic imagination, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The birth of gothic can be said to date to the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape. Castles and country houses built like castles are another manifestation of the gothic imagination: in real life, in pictures, and in gothic stories. They are usually places of fear and anxiety; none more so than in Mitchelstown in Cork, where one family lived up to their home: surrounded by stories of murder, sexual degeneracy, eccentricity, madness, decay, and ruin. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, and clothing design, and
Although his definition of the gothic becomes at times too elastic, this richly illustrated survey is no less enjoyable and informative for its author's ambition. From Publishers Weekly Though separated by time, place and vocation, Neapolitan landscape painter Salvator Rosa, English novelist Mary Shelley and American filmmaker David Lynch all belong to the same exclusive club. Davenport-Hines holds that a coherent antirationalist tradition can be traced through the work of figures as diverse as Francisco Goya, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Byron, Theodor Adorno and 1980s rock singer Robert Smith of the Cure. Of course celebrated gothic novelists such as Ann Radcliffe