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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of science getting out of control.

As the Industrial Revolution promised more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking.

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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Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at 19th-century Britain's obsession with all things Gothic.

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.

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