Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin‘Gothic’ is Richard Davenport-Hines magisterial study of the gothic imagination from vampire novels to the modern day landscape of Bladerunner. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
The spectre still will haunt us | 13 |
Stark mad with gardens | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin Richard Davenport-Hines No preview available - 2000 |
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
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Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational Simon Williams Limited preview - 2001 |