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Terror and wonder : the gothic imagination / edited by Dale Townshend.

By: British Library [issuing body.]Contributor(s): Townshend, Dale [editor.]Publisher: London : British Library, 2014Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 020280600ISBN: 9780712357913; 0712357912; 9780712357555Subject(s): Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism | Art, Gothic -- History | Horror films -- History and criticismDDC classification: 700.41 LOC classification: PR830.T3 | T47 2014
Contents:
Introduction : Terror and wonder : the gothic imagination / Dale Townshend -- Gothic antiquity : from the sack of Rome to the castle of Otranto / Nick Groom -- Gothic, 1764-1820 / Angela Wright -- Gothic, 1820-1880 / Angela Wright -- Gothic and the Victorian fin de siècle, 1880-1900 / Andrew Smith -- Twentieth-century gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Twenty-first-century gothic / Catherine Spooner -- Photographing goths : Martin Parr at the Whitby goth weekend / Martin Parr.
Summary: The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its eighteenth-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.
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The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film, and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder , which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its 18th-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt, and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.

Published on the occasion of the British Library exhibition of the same name October 3, 2014 - January 20, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-219) and index.

Introduction : Terror and wonder : the gothic imagination / Dale Townshend -- Gothic antiquity : from the sack of Rome to the castle of Otranto / Nick Groom -- Gothic, 1764-1820 / Angela Wright -- Gothic, 1820-1880 / Angela Wright -- Gothic and the Victorian fin de siècle, 1880-1900 / Andrew Smith -- Twentieth-century gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Twenty-first-century gothic / Catherine Spooner -- Photographing goths : Martin Parr at the Whitby goth weekend / Martin Parr.

The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, spectres and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its eighteenth-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
  • Chapter 1 Gothic Antiquity: From the Sack of Rome to The Castle of Otranto
  • Chapter 2 Gothic, 1764-1820
  • Chapter 3 Gothic, 1820-1880
  • Chapter 4 Gothic and the Victorian fin de siècle, 1880-1900
  • Chapter 5 Twentieth-Century Gothic
  • Chapter 6 Twenty-First-Century Gothic
  • Photographing Goths: Martin Parr at the Whitby Goth Weekend
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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