Also known as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic, the movement began as a reaction ... The house inspired many Gothic imitations, including Augustus Pugin's Palace of Westminster in London and gave the ...

From Big Ben—the massive, 15-ton bell that sits within the Great Clock of Elizabeth Tower, Westminster—to the gothic ... London history and culture. While there, Irish learned that in ...

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 ...

‘Victorian London was the capital of the world,’ explains Knight. ‘It was a place where you literally had to fight to survive. It was just a place with a lot of mad stuff going on.

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 ...