Jay M. Price
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199925957
- eISBN:
- 9780199980482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925957.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Although some of the most striking (or unusual, depending on the perspective) examples of religious architecture emerged in the postwar decades, the era actually saw an unfolding conversation about ...
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Although some of the most striking (or unusual, depending on the perspective) examples of religious architecture emerged in the postwar decades, the era actually saw an unfolding conversation about style and design. Building committees initially remained wedded to some form of “traditional” architecture save for a handful of congregations who favored the notoriety of something “modern.” As the early postwar years transitioned into the 1950s and early 1960s, the design of churches and synagogues changed. Gothic and Colonial Revival gave way to mid-century traditional. European-inspired modernism transitioned into a Modern Gothic approach where the features of the Gothic cathedral were reinterpreted using contemporary aesthetics and materials. By the 1960s, religious consultants, architects, and others began to rethink the house of worship. Instead of imitating medieval cathedrals in modern styles, the new approach favored a total reworking of sacred space to emphasize the assembled community, with the central altar as the key feature.Less
Although some of the most striking (or unusual, depending on the perspective) examples of religious architecture emerged in the postwar decades, the era actually saw an unfolding conversation about style and design. Building committees initially remained wedded to some form of “traditional” architecture save for a handful of congregations who favored the notoriety of something “modern.” As the early postwar years transitioned into the 1950s and early 1960s, the design of churches and synagogues changed. Gothic and Colonial Revival gave way to mid-century traditional. European-inspired modernism transitioned into a Modern Gothic approach where the features of the Gothic cathedral were reinterpreted using contemporary aesthetics and materials. By the 1960s, religious consultants, architects, and others began to rethink the house of worship. Instead of imitating medieval cathedrals in modern styles, the new approach favored a total reworking of sacred space to emphasize the assembled community, with the central altar as the key feature.
Kylee-Anne Hingston
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620757
- eISBN:
- 9781789629491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620757.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter argues that disability becomes fully specimen in the fin-de-siècle mystery, which grants authority to the professional discourses of medicine, science, and law. Comparing Robert Louis ...
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This chapter argues that disability becomes fully specimen in the fin-de-siècle mystery, which grants authority to the professional discourses of medicine, science, and law. Comparing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) to Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Crooked Man’ (1893), the chapter illuminates the interplay between scientific discourse and narrative structure in fin-de-siècle mysteries, revealing the ambiguity with which late Victorians understood and criminalized disability. Despite Jekyll and Hyde’s modern Gothic, open narrative structure, the novella confirms the conservative disability stereotypes associated with late Victorian criminology and physiognomy, which placed anxieties of cultural deviance upon the disabled mind and body. In contrast, despite the conservative drive towards closure typical of detective fiction, ‘The Crooked Man’ undermines those stereotypes and the supposed criminality of the disabled body. However, when either narrative focalizes through characters with freakish bodies, that focalization troubles the professional authority of scientific discourse and denies the possibility of controlling deviance or separating it from imagined normalcy.Less
This chapter argues that disability becomes fully specimen in the fin-de-siècle mystery, which grants authority to the professional discourses of medicine, science, and law. Comparing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) to Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Crooked Man’ (1893), the chapter illuminates the interplay between scientific discourse and narrative structure in fin-de-siècle mysteries, revealing the ambiguity with which late Victorians understood and criminalized disability. Despite Jekyll and Hyde’s modern Gothic, open narrative structure, the novella confirms the conservative disability stereotypes associated with late Victorian criminology and physiognomy, which placed anxieties of cultural deviance upon the disabled mind and body. In contrast, despite the conservative drive towards closure typical of detective fiction, ‘The Crooked Man’ undermines those stereotypes and the supposed criminality of the disabled body. However, when either narrative focalizes through characters with freakish bodies, that focalization troubles the professional authority of scientific discourse and denies the possibility of controlling deviance or separating it from imagined normalcy.
