Intro -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- 1. The Tumbling Worlds of Henry Adams -- Adams Family -- Great Scott! Sir Walter -- Gothic Harvard -- Photographic Memory -- Reluctant Professor -- Five of Hearts -- Self-Made Medievalist -- 2. Our Lady's Tumbler in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres -- The Nature of the Book -- Madonna of Medieval France, La Dona of Washington -- Universal Exposition of 1900 -- Old Paris -- Dynamo and Virgin Suicide -- Henry Adams as Jongleur -- Unity and Multiplicity -- Medievalist Dream of a Dying DC Dynasty? -- 3. Britain and the Making of the American Middle Ages -- The Goth Side of Washington -- Goths and the Meanings of Gothic(k) -- John Ruskin and William Morris -- Richardsonian Romanesque -- Saint John the Divine and Trinity Church -- Cathedral Culture -- Kenneth Clark -- 4. The Boston Bohemians -- Our Lady's Tumbler in Boston Bohemia -- Charles Eliot Norton -- The Knight Errant and Copeland &amp -- Day -- Fred Holland Day -- Ralph Adams Cram, Great Goth Almighty -- Americanized Middle Ages -- 5. The Rise of Collegiate Gothic -- American Gothic Colleges: Ogive Talking -- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Gothic Jazz Age -- Late Collegiate Gothic at Duke and Rhodes -- Cathedrals of Learning -- Gothic Landscaping: Picturesque Perfect -- Trees as Nature's Cathedrals -- Collegiate Gothic Havens -- Ivy League and Ivory Tower -- 6. Point Taken: Gothic Modernism and the Modern Middle Ages -- The Origins of Gothic Skyscrapers: Top That -- The Cathedral of Commerce -- The Tribune Tower -- Giving Gothic: John D. Rockefeller Jr. -- "Not a Cathedral-Building Age" and Thorstein Veblen -- Seeing Chicago in Gray and White -- Hooting at Yale Gothic -- World War I and Modernism -- Notes -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Bibliography.

Abbreviations -- Referenced Works -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Notes -- Index.

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