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Mad scientists. Lightning-torn castles. Steam-powered love machines. Dread monsters. Supernatural demons lurking in ancient mountains. Eager imps and naughty goblins. And fair maidens with friskiness on their minds, pitting their wits and bodies against every erotic challenge. Included in this collection: Goblin Run (23k, available separately) On Midsummer’s Morn, the maidens come from afar, eager to try the Goblin Run and win a husband. A simple task it might seem, for all a girl needs to do to win is walk a thousand barefoot paces to the cathedral on the top of the hill and claim her man. But she had better not walk. She had better pick up her skirts, free her legs and RUN. Just as fast as she can. Because the goblins are on her trail… The Becoming (4k, new to this collection) Society reporter Archibald Cutwater reports all the developments of the Becoming Season, where society ladies queue to take part in debauchery with the greatest and most powerful innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Tonight Miss Emma Bulstrode meets the steam-powered Armstrong Concentrator, to the delight of all present, not least the willing Miss Bulstrode herself… Frank (17k, available separately) Good work is hard to find in 19th Century Bavaria. And assisting a sinister scientist in his lightning-swept castle laboratory is definitely not good work. So when Heidi Klein enters the service of a man hell-bent on creating monstrous life from bitter death, she knows she is assisting him with dread experiments which may be demeaning, dangerous, even downright embarrassing. But in deciding to make the best of her situation, the last thing Heidi expects is to become emotionally involved with the massive creature slumbering on that cold laboratory slab… Flapjack (3k, new to this collection) The Becoming Season reaches its peak, and society reporter Archibald Cutwater is there on the front-line to report on Miss Sarah Starker’s first encounter with Heneage Trelawny’s amazing new Pneumatic Flapjack, a love machine of quite rampant oscillating power… Imprudence (6k, previously published) The Maagdesgat mine is the heart of the most prosperous and wealthy family in the veldt, the source of its water, its workers and its wealth. But only the ladies of the household know the truth of the pact they have made with its impishly eager workforce… Current Affairs (9k, new to this collection) Sacked from his old reporting job for getting too involved with his work, journalist Archibald Cutwater is despatched to report on the innovative new installation of electric streetlights in Victorian London, the wonder of the technological age. But he is soon up to his old tricks, getting hands-on again at a private demonstration where Miss Florence Creswell is the first to meet the invigorating new electro-armatrix. But Cutwater finds that getting hands-on is only the start of his erotic perils… Guard Rail (34k, available separately) For Charlotte Beaumont, a new job working on an Alpine railway seems just the ticket. But even before night falls on her first day working for the mysterious De Mons Institute, she finds herself in peril, confronting a waspish teacher and her wayward students, while beset by strange voices that whisper to her from the shadows and plant lurid thoughts into her mind. What should have been a routine expedition soon becomes a journey of sinful self-discovery as one by one the maidens she has been employed to protect surrender their innocence to the dark spirit that dwells in the mountains. As the night crowds in around her and the girls she has sworn to defend take turns to debauch themselves eagerly with a supernatural force she can neither see nor comprehend, Charlotte comes to the dreadful, inescapable realisation that the price she must pay to defend her young charges may be the highest price of all…
A beautifully illustrated history of these quirky ornamental buildings in gardens across the globe. Are they frivolous or practical? Follies are buildings constructed primarily for decoration, but they suggest another purpose through their appearance. In this visually stunning book, Celia Fisher describes follies in their historical and architectural context, looks at their social and political significance, and highlights their relevance today. She explores follies built in protest, follies in Oriental and Gothic styles, animal-related follies, waterside follies and grottoes, and, finally, follies in glass and steel. Featuring many fine illustrations, from historical paintings to contemporary photographs and prints, and taking in follies from Great Britain to Ireland, throughout Europe, and beyond, The Story of Follies is an amusing and informative guide to fanciful, charming buildings.
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received serious study before. This guide is the most comprehensive work in its field, a study aid that draws links between a considerable array of Gothic visual works and artifacts, from the work of Salvator Rosa and the first illustrations of Gothic Blue Books to the latest Gothic painters and graphic artists. Currently popular areas such as Gothic fashion, gaming, T.V. and film are considered, as well as the ghostly images of magic lantern shows. This groundbreaking study will serve as an invaluable reference and research book. In its wide range and closely detailed descriptions, it will be very attractive for students, academics, collectors, fans of popular Gothic culture and general readers.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel’s themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic—combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.
An Account of those Architectural Eccentricities commonly known as Follies to be found in the County
The first closely historicized study of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic and Romantic literature.
If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.