Romancing the Cathedral

Romancing the CathedralThrough an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral. Romancing the Cathedral explores the late nineteenth century French passion for Gothic architecture, particularly the cathedral. Though maligned in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and vandalized during the French Revolution, by World War I the cathedral was considered "the genius of the French nation," a

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