Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Gothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Gothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole
Do you wish to request the book?
Gothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
eBook
Gothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole
2020,2021
Overview
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.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,Penn State University Press
Subject
/ Gothic revival (Architecture) -- England
/ History
/ Homosexuality and architecture -- England -- History -- 18th century
/ Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
/ Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
/ Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 -- Art collections
/ Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 -- Friends and associates
/ Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
ISBN
9780271085883, 0271085886, 0271086599, 9780271086590
