Gothic
An Illustrated History
Roger Luckhurst
Thames and Hudson 2021
Hb, 288pp, £28, ISBN 9780500252512
“An Illustrated History” runs the subtitle, but “A Global History” – while perhaps not giving due credit to its stunning images – might also have served as a summary of this illuminating and wide-ranging book.
As Roger Luckhurst sets out in his introduction, the Gothic may be commonly associated with Northern European settings (dark forests, formidable mountains, Victorian cemeteries etc) “but
