Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin

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Fourth Estate, 1998 - Art - 438 pages

‘Gothic’ is Richard Davenport-Hines magisterial study of the gothic imagination from vampire novels to the modern day landscape of Bladerunner.

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Contents

Prologue
1
The spectre still will haunt us
13
Stark mad with gardens
37
Copyright

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About the author (1998)

Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson Prize for History for his first book, ‘Dudley Docker’. He is an adviser to the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ and has also written biographies of W.H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent book, ‘Titanic Lives’ was published in 2012. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

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