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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… of the architect Robert Adam, and the painter Benjamin West. Here I develop a broader, historical comparison. For both Adam and Walpole, I show that one resource for their thinking was precisely the marginality of the Gothic, in comparison to the classical. For them the Gothic was, precisely, …
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Joshua Gilpin, Esq., Kentmere, Delaware: the life and writings of a country gentleman
… interest in science led him to friendship with Benjamin Franklin. Because of his independence of mind and non-violence beliefs as a Quaker, Thomas, during the Revolutionary War, was exiled to Virginia where he became ill and died. ☐ As a young man Joshua Gilpin had an interest in a mercantile …