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Author | : Matthew M. Reeve |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2020-05-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0271086599 |
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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.
Author | : Horace Walpole |
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2020-04-04 |
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The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture
Author | : Horace Walpole |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1791 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Horace Walpole |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : English letters |
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Author | : Horace Walpole |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Artists |
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Author | : Horace Walpole |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1101907894 |
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A new and newly annotated selection of letters--the only selected edition available in hardcover--from the English eighteenth-century historian, novelist, and politician whose correspondence is one of the most admired in English literature. Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture. He wrote to his numerous correspondents on these and other topics in prose that is celebrated for its charm, eloquence, and wit. This new Everyman's edition offers an extensive selection of Walpole's letters, helpfully arranged by subject so the reader can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill. This edition offers new annotations throughout, with introductions to its various sections and a general introduction on Walpole as a letter writer. In addition, the text of the letters has been corrected and previously excised passages have been restored.
Author | : Horace Walpole |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 373264152X |
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Reproduction of the original: The Letters of Horace Walpole by Horace Walpole
Author | : Christopher Frayling |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Art |
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The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively social and cultural scene in the eighteenth century. This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had “a very fine cat indeed”) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of “handsome cats,” including Selima and Zama. In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole’s house in London’s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes,” was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake’s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children’s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.
Author | : Horace Walpole |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732641279 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Letters of Horace Walpole by Horace Walpole