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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1841 in architecture (231 words) |
 | Architecture and Induction: Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic |
| Becher (4-8) briefly discusses the scientific nature of Whewell's architectural writings and their relationship to his views on other subjects; Schaffer (215-17) sketches the religious and political interests that these architectural writings were meant to serve. |
| For Ruskin, the "corruption" of Gothic architecture was connected to "the peculiar degradation of the Romanist superstition, and of public morality in consequence" (9:44). |
| Biographical Note. Hugo, Victor Marie. 1917. Notre Dame de Paris. Vol. XII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (1068 words) |
| The years from 1831 to 1841 were filled with writings which continually raised his reputation, until he reached the French Academy at the age of thirty-nine. |
| The terminology of oceanography and meteorology almost drowns the story in some chapters of “Les Travailleurs de la Mer”; and the architecture and history of the middle ages intrude in “Notre Dame” far beyond what is necessary to give the required color and atmosphere. |
| As a work of art this novel would only be improved by the omission of the chapters on the topography of Paris and the architecture of the cathedral. |
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