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The Gothic : a very short introduction / Nick Groom.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Groom, Nick, 1966- author.
Series:
Very short introductions.
Very short introductions
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Arts, Gothic.
Art, Gothic.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
Gothic revival (Art).
Gothic revival (Literature)--History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature).
Popular culture--History--16th century.
Popular culture.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 163 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Summary:
Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day.
Contents:
Preface : a history of the gothic in thirteen chapters
Origins of the Goths
The ascent to heaven
The iconoclasts
The revenge of the dead
Liberty gothic
Gothic whiggery
The sixties
The descent into hell
The poetics of blood
The gothic dream
New England Goths
The ghost in the machine
First and last and always.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9780191777905 :
OCLC:
958580634

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