Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840

The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to 'high' Victorian Gothic, and centered their discussion around Walpole's Strawberry Hill. This book, conversely, reveals how the style was imaginatively and ...