Budapest, Hungary
Zastrozzi: a Gothic pastiche
How the Gothic was built on the novels of the past?
By the end of the eighteenth century, there was a growing sense of disruption caused by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. The Industrial Revolution brought the liberating power of technology, but such rapid expansion also brought pollution and the spoiling of the natural world. Human beings were being uprooted, and certain types of traditional work had been lost. With the redistribution of wealth and poverty under a capitalist system, labour management became more impersonal. The French Revolution brought social, political, and ideological change along with disillusionment through terror and the rise of Napoleon.
