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In this chapter I will be thinking about Gothic in relation to heritage management, taking for my case studies three castles from different economic sectors. In the first section I will be looking at Warwick Castle, which is owned and managed by the entertainments company Merlin. In the second section, I will be turning my attention to forms of Gothic tourism at Alnwick Castle, which is owned by the Percy family, and is the centrepiece of the family estates and businesses. In the third section I will be returning to Berry Pomeroy Castle, not only because it is managed by English Heritage, the largest of the heritage organizations in England, and, at the time of writing, a state-funded body, but also because it has ghost traditions to manage.1 I will be considering the way these castles are presented and interpreted, looking at the different kinds of visitor experience they offer, and thinking about the relationship of each with the discourses and tropes of the Gothic.
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Richard Lomas, A Power in the Land: The Percys (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999), pages 171–172.
Colin Shrimpton, Alnwick Castle (Derby: English Life, c. 1999), page 15. Algernon employed Anthony Salvin, an architect who specialized in medieval restoration and design, accessed 9 July 2015.
Laura Mayer’s, ‘“Junketacious” Gothick: Elizabeth Percy’s Patronage of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland’ in Maria Purves (ed.) Women and Gothic (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), pages 25–38, page 32.
Charles Kightly, Berry Pomeroy Castle (London: English Heritage, 2011) page 21. Note that the caryatids and the plasterwork are not now visible on site.
Kate Ellis, The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
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McEvoy, E. (2016). A Tale of Three Castles: Gothic and Heritage Management. In: Gothic Tourism. The Palgrave Gothic Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391292_7
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