[COMPLETE] Short Cleanup: Gothic (Richard Davenport-Hines)

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There are errors that need to be cleaned up on the book Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines.

I only have access to the US editions, so I will be primarily focusing on those.

1. US Paperback: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (ISBN 9780865475908)

- The publication date should just be 2000.

- The publisher is incorrect. It should be North Point Press.

- The page count is incorrect. It should be 438.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed directly from the back of the book.

Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. With their precipices, ruined castles, dark caves, and contorted trees, Rosa’s paintings provided the original visual framework of the genre. But why has a sensibility that emerged in reaction to the Enlightenment, that sought to negate its ideals of rationality and perfectibility with a celebration of inversion, terror, and the sublime, continued to obsess us? In fact, why does the gothic appear to be thriving – more popular, in some ways, than ever? Taking us inside and beyond the haunted houses that typically come to mind, Davenport-Hines’s revelator history shows us the larger cultural implications of gothic’s transgressive impulses. He ranges widely through art, architecture, literature, gardening, photography, filmmaking, music, and clothing design, and examines figures as various as Byron, Horace Walpole, Goya, Frankenstein’s monster, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, David Lynch, and The Cure. Whatever the medium, Gothic probes our ongoing fascination with “twisted and punished desires, barbarity, caprice, base terrors, and vicious life.”

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2. US Hardcover: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (ISBN 9780865475441)

- The publisher is incorrect. It should be North Point Press.

- The publication date should just be 1999.

- “First., First Edition” needs to be removed from the Editions field. This is not the first edition.

- The description is incorrect. Transcribed from the book’s jacket:

In this lively and provocative book, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the history of the gothic sensibility, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The birth of gothic can be said to date to the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage scenes depicted by the painter Salvator Rosa. With their precipices, ruined castles, dark caves, and contorted trees, they provided the original visual and imaginative frame of the genre. In England, under Rosa’s influence, William Kent created the first gothic garden when he planted a dead tree on the grounds of Kensington Palace.

Castles and country houses built like castles are another manifestation of the gothic imagination: in real life, in pictures, and in gothic stories. They are usually places of fear and anxiety, none more so than in Mitchelstown in Cork, where one family lived up to their home, inspired by and inspiring stories of murder, sexual degeneracy, eccentricity, madness, decay, and ruin.

Whatever the medium – art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, clothing design – gothic is about exaggeration, about immoderation. This revelator history ranges across genres and eras, taking in figures as various as Lord Byron, Francisco Goya, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, David Lynch, and The Cure as it probes our ongoing fascination with “twisted and punished desires, barbarity, caprice, base terrors and vicious life.”

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3. UK Hardcover: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin (ISBN 9781857024982)

- The wrong author is listed on the book. In the name Richard Davenport-Hines, there are no spaces around the hyphen in his last name.

- The publisher should just be Fourth Estate.

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4. Invalid Editions

The following editions were mistakenly imported from secondhand Amazon sellers by the Goodreads bot and need to be marked invalid.

A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

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Done

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Thanks a ton!