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Macdonell, Cameron
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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.
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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.
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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.
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