Review of Gothic: An Illustrated History

By Roger Luckhurst

See Gothic on the publisher’s website

This book covers twenty aspects of “Gothic” in this wide-ranging study. But what is meant by “Gothic”? You won’t find a straightforward definition here. As Luckhurst puts it:

I prefer to see [Gothic] as a collection of ‘travelling tropes’ that, while they originate in a narrow set of European cultures with distinct me…