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Terror and wonder : the gothic imagination / edited by Dale Townshend.
- Title
- Terror and wonder : the gothic imagination / edited by Dale Townshend.
- Publication
- London : British Library, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR830.T3 T47 2014 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Townshend, Dale
- Description
- 224 pages : illustration (chiefly color); 28 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism > Exhibitions
- Art, Gothic > History > Exhibitions
- Horror films > History and criticism > Exhibitions
- Art gothique > Histoire > Expositions
- Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique > Expositions
- Art, Gothic
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
- Horror films
- Gothic novel
- Gothic Kultur
- Horrorfilm
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs
- History
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the British Library exhibition of the same name October 3, 2014 - January 20, 2015.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-219) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780712357913
- 0712357912
- 9780712357555
- 0712357556
- LCCN
- 9780712357913
- 40024802940
- OCLC
- 892793908
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library