Description
Author: Clarke, Graham (ed.)
Publisher: Helm
Place: Mountfield
Cover: hardback in original cloth
Condition: New books
Category: Novels & Poetry
Year: 2002
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: xvi + 624, vii + 723, vii + 690pp., b/w pls., text ills., index, Volume 1 : Blood and Ghosts; Volume 2 : Living the Gothic Revival; Volume 3 : Gothic and National Architecture. Volume I ‘features a series of texts that create and exemplify the major narratives for historical views of original Gothic architecture.’ Volume II ‘begins with a section devoted to the varied theories from 1750 to 1820 concerning the origins of original Gothic architecture. After some brief descriptions of William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey, the question of how people lived the Gothic Revival is explored through the responses of famous writers prominent in European Romanticism, and historical figures: Beckford himself, Sir Francis Dashwood and John Wilkes, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott.’ Volume III ‘follows the debate about the national acceptability of Gothic Revival architecture which flared up in the 1830s around the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament. This project involved A. W. N. Pugin, and his major writings about Gothic are also reprinted here.’ In cardboard box as issued
