Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, 1300 to Now — AH4108.01
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even craven, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits--and/or The Church. But if seeing