Mary Rose’s Reviews > Gothic Revival > Status Update

I have never heard an architectural historian refer to the architects of the gothic revival as "goths" before, momentarily got stuck imagining Samuel Sanders Teulon dressed like Dave Vanian

“Here was a militant attachment to the past, most often the medieval past, which could be reinvented and mobilized—in books, pictures, buildings—against the emergency of the present. There was in this a central irony: the past was only available for reinvention because of the revolutionary disruptions conservatives abhorred...”