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Reeve Matthew M. |
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Gothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole / / Matthew M. Reeve |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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9780271086590 |
0-271-08657-2 |
0-271-08659-9 |
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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Gothic revival (Architecture) - England |
Homosexuality and architecture - England - History - 18th century |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Medievalism, Modernity, and the History of Sexuality -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The New Medievalism CONSTRUCTING THE GOTHIC IN THE CIRCLE OF HORACE WALPOLE -- 2. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill -- 3. Queer Family Romance in the Strawberry Hill Collection -- 4. Dicky Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor -- 5. “The Spirit of Strawberry-Castle” DONNINGTON GROVE, THE VYNE, AND LEE PRIOR Y -- 6. From Strawberry Hill Gothic to the Gothic Revival -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee |
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Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies. |
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UNINA9910346835903321 |
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Zhou Wenxu |
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Chemical Biology of Sterols, Triterpenoids and Other Natural Products : : A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor W. David Nes on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday / / Wenxu Zhou, De-an Guo |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019 |
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1 electronic resource (256 p.) |
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Sterols and other isoprenoids are of great interest for their molecular structure and function in cell architecture and evolution, as well as for their importance in medicine and agriculture. Molecules' 2019 Festschrift Special Issue in honor of the 65th birthday of Prof. W. David |
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Nes, an internationally recognized chemical biologist and recipient of the George Schroepher medal for sterol research, focuses on recent developments in the chemistry, biosynthesis, and function of these polycyclic natural products. This volume of Molecules contains 16 leading-edge review articles and original research contributions from an international cast of scientists. This volume is grouped into three sections: (i) isoprenoid metabolome and diversity, (ii) clinical evaluation of sterol and triterpene structures and biosynthesis, and (iii) methods and synthesis of steroids and other compounds. The volume will be a valuable reference tool for those who study medicinal chemistry, protein chemistry, and biochemistry of isoprenoid lipids. |
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