- Paperback
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865475903
- ISBN-13: 978-0865475908
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,274,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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28 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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A fascinating subject that deserves better, May 15 2000
By "bloodyholly" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (Hardcover)
As a historian & a goth I so looked forward to this book. While it started out interesting, the closer it got to the 20th c. (my area of expertise) the more flaws I found in his research. I joked that he must have typed in "gothic" on yahoo & printed out everything that came up... then I looked in the footnotes. They are filled with website citations of peoples' homepages! No wonder the research was so bad! Because of space limitations I can only give one example: he lists "Carcass" & "Suburban Relapse" as Bauhaus songs, when they are, in fact, Siouxsie & the Banshees songs. I wonder what he got wrong in his research of previous centuries, about which I have less knowledge. It is so disjointed towards the end that, frankly, it reads like a 15-year-old's "Things I Like" list. What a disappointment! Someone else, please pick up the gauntlet & write an accurate history of goth influence on the centuries!
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hines investigates why we love to be afraid of the dark!, Aug 3 1999
By cbryant69@aol.com or Clint Bryant - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (Hardcover)
Using all his powers of perception Richard Davenport-Hines draws the black curtains back and reveals why humans have this odd fascination with anything gothic. Though insightful and often thorough to a painful degree, Hines seems to hit all the highlights in what is a most difficult topic to cover completely. Far from objective Hines gives his opinon on the greater and lesser talents of the Macabre, from Lord Byron to Poppy Z. Brite, Hines speaks about his subjects with passion or with ambivalence, depending on his preferance. Though the start is slow, tracing the history of English Gardens the book gradually builds up steam until the end, in which with great love he speaks of English modern artists. Throughout Hines is insightful and his style of writing mixed with the sordidness of the subject matter leads to a good informative book with plenty of appeal for those interested in the Gothic tradition.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for everyone interested in gothic, July 9 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (Hardcover)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is both exitingly written and scholarly convincing which is rare indeed. This is a must for everyone interested in gothic,it covers everything from 18th century gothic garden architecture to horror films and modern gothic fiction. An ample dose of "excess, horror, evil and ruin"...
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