The artistic potential modern, urban housing (“Neubau”) offered to writers and directors in East Germany from the 1960s to 1980s remains underexplored. Neubau Atmospheres seeks to bridge that gap by providing an incisive analysis of East...Loe edasi...
Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters o...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD, through seventeenth-century Gothic politics, and up to the end of the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focu...Loe edasi...
Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established sc...Loe edasi...
Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.Horror begins at homeFrom family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009430104)
The beguiling ruins of Rome have a long history of allure. They first engaged the attention of later mediaeval tourists, just as they do today. The interest of travellers was captured in the Renaissance by artists, architects, topographers, antiquari...Loe edasi...
This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll—from his nonsense fiction, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two...Loe edasi...
Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman...Loe edasi...
This is an encyclopaedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with analytical examples in literature. It will interest researchers, students, architects, urban planners, and readers with an interest in urban culture, architect...Loe edasi...
Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, painstakingly tracing their influence on popular imagination. Its su...Loe edasi...
It focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how allusions to travel writing and art history influenced her representations of spaces. How the shock of the Great War changed Wharton’s travel des...Loe edasi...
Tales of terror, mythoi of the macabre, phobic fantasies, and numinous narratives have played an integral role in collective cultural expression since antiquity. It was, however, in 19th-century Europe that weird fiction reached its first apogee as...Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria....Loe edasi...
Find out which are the tallest buildings in the world! Read all about the perils and thrills of reaching for the clouds in gigantic towers....Loe edasi...
A unique lift-the-flap book reveals famous Frank Lloyd Wright buildings—plus a peek inside. Little one can build fine motor skills and learn architecture basics in this gem of a board book.Open the door to Fallingwater, and see...Loe edasi...
A dreamers tree house. A mechanics cottage. A submerged city. Over thirty imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who is the mischievous bridgetower keeper? What does the witch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526176370)
Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book exam...Loe edasi...
