Imagine living in a city with a fairytale castle at its center where royalty, politics, and pop culture mingle. That’s what ...
But the key protagonist for the Gothic Revival by much of Victorian England was the architect, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). After helping his father to survey and record medieval ...
The house predated and inspired the Gothic revivalism in Victorian architecture. After he had built Strawberry Hill House, Walpole claimed the idea for his novel The Castle of Otranto came to him ...
This demonstrated the intellectually radical critical potential of the Gothic. Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle (MUP 2004) explores representations of ...
While in art and literature, the Gothic allowed Horace Walpole, Bram Stoker and Dickens to capture the terror, weirdness and social ills that plagued Victorian Britain. Dan Cruickshank and the ...