Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Captions for Volume II
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century, 1800–1900
- 2.1 Gothic Romanticism and the Summer of 1816
- 2.2 Fantasmagoriana: The Cosmopolitan Gothic and Frankenstein
- 2.3 The Mutation of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Gothic
- 2.4 From Romantic Gothic to Victorian Medievalism: 1817 and 1877
- 2.5 Nineteenth-Century Gothic Architectural Aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
- 2.6 Gothic Fiction, from Shilling Shockers to Penny Bloods
- 2.7 The Theatrical Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
- 2.8 ‘Spectrology’: Gothic Showmanship in Nineteenth-Century Popular Shows and Media
- 2.9 The Gothic in Victorian Poetry
- 2.10 The Genesis of the Victorian Ghost Story
- 2.11 Charles Dickens and the Gothic
- 2.12 Victorian Domestic Gothic Fiction
- 2.13 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Spain
- 2.14 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Italy
- 2.15 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
- 2.16 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 2.17 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century America
- 2.18 Nineteenth-Century British and American Gothic and the History of Slavery
- 2.19 Genealogies of Monstrosity: Darwin, the Biology of Crime and Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Literature
- 2.20 Gothic and the Coming of the Railways
- 2.21 Gothic Imperialism at the Fin de siècle
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2.5 - Nineteenth-Century Gothic Architectural Aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2020
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Captions for Volume II
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century, 1800–1900
- 2.1 Gothic Romanticism and the Summer of 1816
- 2.2 Fantasmagoriana: The Cosmopolitan Gothic and Frankenstein
- 2.3 The Mutation of the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Gothic
- 2.4 From Romantic Gothic to Victorian Medievalism: 1817 and 1877
- 2.5 Nineteenth-Century Gothic Architectural Aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris
- 2.6 Gothic Fiction, from Shilling Shockers to Penny Bloods
- 2.7 The Theatrical Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
- 2.8 ‘Spectrology’: Gothic Showmanship in Nineteenth-Century Popular Shows and Media
- 2.9 The Gothic in Victorian Poetry
- 2.10 The Genesis of the Victorian Ghost Story
- 2.11 Charles Dickens and the Gothic
- 2.12 Victorian Domestic Gothic Fiction
- 2.13 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Spain
- 2.14 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Italy
- 2.15 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
- 2.16 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 2.17 The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century America
- 2.18 Nineteenth-Century British and American Gothic and the History of Slavery
- 2.19 Genealogies of Monstrosity: Darwin, the Biology of Crime and Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Literature
- 2.20 Gothic and the Coming of the Railways
- 2.21 Gothic Imperialism at the Fin de siècle
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Beginning with the design competition for the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in 1834, this chapter discusses the development of Gothic in architecture in the nineteenth century. It examines the work of three significant figures in the Gothic Revival: A.W. N. Pugin; John Ruskin; and William Morris, suggesting that, although each approached the issue in terms of their different religious and political convictions, all three were concerned with the relationship between architecture and society. Pugin’s contrasts of contemporary and fifteenth-century architecture illustrated the damaging social divisions of Victorian England and the need to return to medieval architectural forms and religious attitudes. Politically and religiously more ambiguous than Pugin, Ruskin proposed the special ‘Northern Gothic’ character of England where the artistic freedom of the artisan had expressed the coherence of its communities, now lost in industrial servitude. Morris, drawing from Ruskin, emphasised the freedom of labour and became convinced that Socialism was a crucial stage in the Gothic Revival.
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- The Cambridge History of the Gothic , pp. 118 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020