The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
Season 1 • Episode 2: The City and the Soul • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: The City and the Soul
October 27, 2014 • 60 min
As the Industrial Revolution promised more and more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of how science could get out of control, while Sir Giles Gilbert Scott used Gothic architecture to memorialise Prince Albert as a medieval hero. Meanwhile, poets indulged in hallucinatory drugs to reach new Gothic heights. Where would it all end?
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