Title Ghost storeys : Ralph Adams Cram, modern Gothic media, and deconstructive microhistory at a Canadian church / Cameron Macdonell

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) : illustrations Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbrevations -- Introduction -- Cram, the Anglophile -- Gifts of the Magi -- Encrypting the Gothick Body -- The Castle Perilous, Walkerville -- Postcrypt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Do modern Gothic buildings and books have more in common than the "Gothic" adjective? Scholars have limited this question to British author/architects of the eighteenth century. However, Ralph Adams Cram (1863--1942) was America's most prolific and vocal advocate of Gothic Revival architecture, and he published a book of Gothic ghost stories in 1895. Ghost Storeys consequently offers the first comprehensive study of Cram's interdisciplinary Gothic aesthetics, deconstructing the boundaries of architecture and literature. For Cram, ghosts are manifestations of social sickness, and the unusual commission of a Canadian church allowed him to exercise his pessimistic revival of Gothic architecture in an ailing modern world. The lead patron, Edward Walker of eponymous Walkerville, Ontario, commissioned the church for his company town because he was secretly dying of syphilis, and Cram put Walker's regeneration in the hands of a Grail knight who might never come. Walkerville's Anglican architecture is haunted by a future that Cram himself could not provide, and through the intricate intersections of Gothic aesthetics, architectural ethics, and company town construction in Edwardian Canada, Cameron Macdonell opens new perspectives on the modern failure to resurrect the past. What came back from the Gothic grave was a tormented revenant in need of miraculous intervention. Painstakingly researched and illustrated, Ghost Storeys is a microhistory that redefines the allegorical relationship between a marginalized Canadian church and the Gothic Revival as a global interdisciplinary phenomenon."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 07, 2022) Subject Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 SUBJECT Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 fast Subject St. Mary's Anglican Church (Windsor, Ont.) SUBJECT St. Mary's Anglican Church (Windsor, Ont.) fast Subject Anglican church buildings -- Ontario -- Windsor Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Ontario -- Windsor Church architecture -- Ontario -- Windsor Church architecture -- Details. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious. Anglican church buildings Church architecture Church architecture -- Details Gothic revival (Architecture) Ontario -- Windsor Form Electronic book LC no. 2017479220 ISBN 9780773549906 0773549900 9780773549913 0773549919

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