American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature

Author(s) Kerry Carso

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Art and Music

Series: Gothic Literary Studies

  • November 2014 · 256 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9781783161607
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781783161614
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783161621

American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the impact British Gothic novels and historical romances had on American art and architecture in the Romantic era. Key figures include Thomas Jefferson, Washington Allston, Alexander Jackson Davis, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Thomas Cole, Edwin Forrest and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne articulated the subject of this book when he wrote that he could understand Sir Walter Scott’s romances better after viewing Scott’s Gothic Revival house Abbotsford, and he understood the house better for having read the romances. This study investigates this symbiotic relationship between the arts and Gothic literature to reveal new interpretative possibilities.

Author(s): Kerry Carso

Kerry Dean Carso is Associate Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

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