LEADER 04019oam 2200565 450 001 9910794124803321 005 20210831024851.0 010 $a9780271086590$belectronic bk. 010 $a0-271-08657-2 010 $a0-271-08659-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271086590 035 $a(CKB)4100000011260470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224817 035 $a(DE-B1597)583714 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271086590 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313915 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011260470 100 $a20200929d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole /$fMatthew M. Reeve 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (363 pages) 311 08$a0-271-08588-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface: Medievalism, Modernity, and the History of Sexuality --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. The New Medievalism CONSTRUCTING THE GOTHIC IN THE CIRCLE OF HORACE WALPOLE --$t2. Horace Walpole?s Strawberry Hill --$t3. Queer Family Romance in the Strawberry Hill Collection --$t4. Dicky Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor --$t5. ?The Spirit of Strawberry-Castle? DONNINGTON GROVE, THE VYNE, AND LEE PRIOR Y --$t6. From Strawberry Hill Gothic to the Gothic Revival --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aGothic 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 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. 606 $aGothic revival (Architecture)$zEngland 606 $aHomosexuality and architecture$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 610 $aArt History. 610 $aGay and lesbian studies. 610 $aHistory of Architecture. 610 $aMedievalism. 610 $aThe Gothic Revival. 610 $athird sex. 615 0$aGothic revival (Architecture) 615 0$aHomosexuality and architecture$xHistory 676 $a720.9421 700 $aReeve$b Matthew M.$0604495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794124803321 996 $aGothic architecture and sexuality in the circle of Horace Walpole$93750135 997 $aUNINA