Richard Davenport-Hines
Author of Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
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- Canonical name
- Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Birthdate
- 1953-06-21
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Occupations
- professor
historian
literary biographer - Organizations
- Athenaeum Club, London, England, UK
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
Royal Historical Society (Fellow)
London School of Economics - Awards and honors
- Wolfson Prize for History and Biography (1985)
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- Works
- 29
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 1,606
- Popularity
- #16,051
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 53
- ISBNs
- 107
- Languages
- 8
The author's biggest mistake is the amount of pages spent on Gothic architecture. The first half of the book is full of castle names, earls and dukes, and is of little interest to those who want to read about the Gothic lifestyle. The author does deconstruct the literature of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne rather well, in addition to a myriad of British authors whose names I am not familiar with, but might be interested in now. His coverage of Gothic art is average. The book includes photographs of many pieces of art, but the author must resign himself to describing pieces he could not include in the pictures, leading to reader frustration. I do slightly recommend this book, but do not be fooled by its dark cover. This covers four hundred years of Gothic HISTORY (despite the cover and marketing), not four hundred years of your emo nephew hanging out at the mall and listening to Marilyn Manson, who is not covered here.… (more)