Abstract
'Tom Duggett’s [chapter] advances an argument that places the Gothic at the heart of the aesthetics of the nineteenth century. Far from being a kind of excrescence or addition to the body cultural, Gothic lies at the very root of how architectural and aesthetic theory developed during these years, ensuring a clear transition from the thought and imagination of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey to the manifestos and practices of later cultural thinkers. Gothic provides, we might say here as elsewhere, a different account of how history moves. Behind this there lies a hugely significant argument about the relation between ideas of the Gothic and ideas of ‘English’ nationalism, centred on the notion of the unwritten constitution' - David Punter.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts |
Editors | David Punter |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 15-35 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4744-3237-5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1474432351 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
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Duggett, T. (2019). Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle, and the Gothic Legacies of the Lake Poets. In D. Punter (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (pp. 15-35). Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs9173.6