Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines

Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin

Richard Davenport-Hines

448 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history horror dark slow-paced
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Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelato...

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