Monday, 19 January 2015

Terror and Wonder The Gothic Imagination at The British Library

Highlights there were many:

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and the animation by Jan Swankmeyer

The Faerie Queene

The Four Zoas

Gomenghast

Tintern Abbey ' something sublime and awful about large edifices tumbling to pieces'

Vathek- William Beckford

Edmund Burles

Mysteries of Udolpho

Sublime to mean inspiring and disturbing, immense grandeur terror and power

the writing of Anne Radcliff

Blackhouse

Frankenstein illustrations by Lynd Ward

Basil's concepts of doubles

The Dark Blue

The Tell Tale Heart

The Innocents (ghost obscured by the rain)

The Willows

Temper of Time (illustrations by Leonard Baskin)

Witch Wood

The Monk

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