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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Macdonell, Cameron     Subjects     Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942.     St. Mary's Anglican Church (Windsor, Ont.)     Anglican church buildings -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Church architecture -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Church architecture -- Details.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Macdonell, Cameron       by title:      Ghost storeys : Ralp...       by call number:      726.50971 M136g     Search the Web     Macdonell, Cameron     Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942.     St. Mary's Anglican Church (Windsor, Ont.)     Anglican church buildings -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Church architecture -- Ontario -- Windsor.     Church architecture -- Details.       MARC Display

Ghost storeys : Ralph Adams Cram, modern Gothic media, and deconstructive microhistory at a Canadian church / Cameron Macdonell. by Macdonell, Cameron McGill-Queen's University Press, c2017. Call #: 726.50971 M136g Subjects Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942.   St. Mary's Anglican Church (Windsor, Ont.)   Anglican church buildings -- Ontario -- Windsor.   Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Ontario -- Windsor.   Church architecture -- Ontario -- Windsor.   Church architecture -- Details. ISBN:  9780773549890 (pbk.) Description:  xvi, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and 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."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 726.50971 M136g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 726.50971 M136g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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