Georgian Gothic

<b>First full-length study of the impact of the Gothic Revival across the arts from literature and architectural theory to houses furniture and interiors.</b><br><br>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 approvedtaste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as an homogenous and immature precursor to high Victorian Gothic and centred their discussion around Walpole's Strawberry Hill. This book conversely reveals how the style was imaginatively and repeatedly revised and incorporated into prevailing eighteenth-century fashions: Palladianism Rococo Neoclassicism and antiquarianism. It shows how under the control of architects from Wren toPugin Walpole and Cottingham and furniture designs especially those of Chippendale and Ince and Mayhew a shared language of Gothic motifs was applied to British architecture furniture and interiors. Georgian Britain was awash with Gothic forms even if the arbiters of taste criticised it vehemently. Throughout the volume reframes the Gothic Revival's expression by connecting it with Georgian understandings of the medieval past and consequently revises our interpretation of one of the most influential yet lampooned forms of material culture at the time.<br><br> Peter N. Lindfield is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Stirling.