Gothic Architecture

This book will discuss Gothic Architecture. Vaults in Gothic architecture are often ribbed, with a framework of thin stone ribs supporting the vaulted ceiling. This technique allows for greater height and structural stability.

Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms.