1st Edition
The Hero Building An Architecture of Scottish National Identity
By Johnny Rodger
Copyright 2015
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero buildings commissioned as manifestations of certain social beliefs, or as a built environmental form of social advocacy? And if so, then how and why were social aims and intentions translated into architectural form, and how effective were they? A... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Hero Building; Chapter 2 Prototype; Chapter 3 Romantic Poet – Enlightenment Poet; Chapter 4 The Athens of the North/Valhalla of the West; Chapter 5 Wizard of the North; Chapter 6 Baronial Revival and the National Wallace Monument; Chapter 7 National Poet – Poet of Humanity; Chapter 8 Aberration, Autism and Vanity; Chapter 9 The Fallen; Chapter 10 A Postmodern Proof; Chapter 11 Afterlife;
Biography
Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art. His published work includes fiction such as The Auricle (1995) and Redundant (1998) and critical volumes like Contemporary Glasgow (Rutland Press, 1999), Gillespie Kidd & Coia 1956-87 (RIAS, 2007), Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher and the New Scotland (2010), and The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment (2011).
’A contribution not only to architectural history but also to describing the deeper aesthetic self-conception of nationality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scotland. The layers of civic, historic and literary consciousness essayed in this book make it a bold new landmark in the explanation of Scotland's monumentality.’ Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow, UK
