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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004891714
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:1127694846
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770487857
This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole. Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole’s private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized country house, The Castle of Otranto became an instant and immediate classic of the Gothic genre as well as the prototype for Gothic fiction for the next two hundred years. Walpole’s brooding and intense drama, The Mysterious Mother, focuses on the protagonist’s angst over an act of incest with his mother, and includes the appearance of Father Benedict, Gothic literature’s first evil monk. Appendices in this edition include selections from Walpole’s letters, contemporary responses, and writings illustrating the aesthetic and intellectual climate of the period. Also included is Sir Walter Scott’s introduction to the 1811 edition of The Castle of Otranto.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Incest
ISBN : OCLC:785198405
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1794
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020043506
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Enter the world of classic horror with "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. This Gothic masterpiece will send shivers down your spine as you explore its dark and mysterious corridors. Get ready to experience one of the best classic horror novels of all time.
Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781447499084
“The Gothic Quest - A History of the Gothic Novel” is a 1938 treatise by Montague Summers on the subject of the Gothic novel, looking at its origins, evolution, and role in contemporary literature. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “The Romantic Feeling”, “Notes to Chapter I”, “The Publishers and the Circulating Libraries”, “Notes to Chapter II”, “Influences from Abroad”, “Notes to Chapter III”, “Historical Gothic”, “Notes to Chapters IV”, “Matthew Gregory Lewis”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “A Popular History of Witchcraft” (1937), “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946), and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736806658
A Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier. The Castle of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy "That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by marrying Isabella himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, who he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. However, as Manfred attempts to marry Isabella, she escapes to a church with the aid of a peasant named Theodore. Manfred orders Theodore's death while talking to the friar Jerome, who ensured Isabella's safety in the church. When Theodore removes his shirt to be killed, Jerome recognizes a marking below his shoulder and identifies Theodore as his own son. Jerome begs for his son's life, but Manfred says Jerome must either give up the princess or his son's life. They are interrupted by a trumpet and the entrance of knights from another kingdom who want to deliver Isabella. This leads the knights and Manfred to race to find Isabella. Theodore, having been locked in a tower by Manfred, is freed by Manfred's daughter Matilda. He races to the underground church and finds Isabella. He hides her in a cave and blocks it to protect her from Manfred and ends up fighting one of the mysterious knights. Theodore badly wounds the knight, who turns out to be Isabella's father, Frederic. With that, they all go up to the castle to work things out. Frederic falls in love with Matilda and he and Manfred begin to make a deal about marrying each other's daughters. Manfred, suspecting that Isabella is meeting Theodore in a tryst in the church, takes a knife into the church, where Matilda is meeting Theodore. Thinking his own daughter is Isabella, he stabs her. Theodore is then revealed to be the true prince of Otranto and Matilda dies, leaving Manfred to repent. Theodore becomes king and eventually marries Isabella because she is the only one who can understand his true sorrow.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141907574
On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who usurped the lawful Prince of Otranto, begins to unfold. First published pseudonymously in 1764, purporting to be an ancient Italian text from the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto is a founding work of Gothic fiction. With its compelling blend of sinister portents, tempestuous passions and ghostly visitations, it spawned an entire literary tradition and influenced such writers as Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker.
Author : Maximillian E. Novak,Anne Kostelanetz Mellor
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Emotions in literature
ISBN : 0874137039
This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period.
Author : Dale Townshend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198845669
Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past--a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.
Author : Douglass H. Thomson,Jack G. Voller,Frederick S. Frank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313006913
With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference is designed to accommodate the critical and bibliographical needs of a broad spectrum of users, from scholars seeking critical assistance to general readers wanting an introduction to the Gothic, its abundant criticism, and the present state of Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today. Each of the entries is devoted to a particular author or group of authors whose works exhibit Gothic elements, beginning with a primary bibliography of works by the writer, including modern editions. This section is followed by a critical essay, which examines the author's use of Gothic themes, the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and the critical reception of the author's works. The entries close with selected, annotated bibliographies of scholarly studies. The volume concludes with a timeline and a bibliography of the most important broad scholarly works on the Gothic.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798744564940
Otranto Castle is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and is generally considered the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word "Gothic" to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic History". The novel fused medieval and horror in a way that has continued ever since.
Author : Paul Hyland,Neil Sammells
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000867961
First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s. Written by some of the leading experts in the field, this collection charts the struggles for artistic expression, reveals how censorship is appropriated as a legitimate tactic in the defence of oppressed and marginalised groups, and analyses the struggles writers have employed in the face of its complex dynamics. Here variously defined, defended and deplored, censorship emerges as both an unstable and a potent concept. Through it we define ourselves: as readers, as writers and as citizens. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and law.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798690659318
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto, a novel by Horace Walpole, published under a pseudonym in 1764 (although the first editions are dated the following year). It is considered the first Gothic novel in the English language, and it is often said that it founded the horror story as a legitimate literary form. Walpole presents The Castle of Otranto as the English translation of a recently discovered manuscript. The preface to the first edition suggests that the manuscript was written sometime between 1095 and 1243 (during the Crusades), "or shortly after", and subsequently printed in Naples in 1529. The manuscript tells the story of Manfred, a prince of Otranto. . At the beginning of the story, Manfred eagerly awaits the marriage of his sickly son, Conrad, to Princess Isabella. Manfred's subjects notice his impatience. They suspect that Manfred has arranged the marriage in hopes of avoiding an ancient prophecy that predicted that his castle and his governorate of Otranto "would pass from the present family, provided the royal owner grew too large to inhabit." The wedding date is set for Conrad's birthday. However, on their wedding day, Manfred's son is nowhere to be found. In the courtyard, a servant discovers that a huge helmet fell from the sky and crushed Conrad to death. Realizing that his only male heir is dead and his wife can no longer have children, Manfred decides to marry Isabella. He approaches Isabella with this proposal. When she refuses to marry him, Manfred grabs her, apparently with the intention of raping her. Fortunately, a series of supernatural events, including the appearance of his grandfather's ghost, distracts Manfred, and Isabella manages to break free. As she escapes to the nearby Saint Nicholas Church (with the help of a peasant named Theodore), Manfred confronts his guards, who claim to have seen a giant armored leg in the gallery. Later, he and his guards are joined by a group of knights who seek Isabel on behalf of her father, the Marquis of Vicenza. Outside the castle grounds, Theodore bravely defends Isabella from a knight. She hurts the knight and discovers, to her dismay, that the wounded knight is actually Isabella's father, Frederic. Together, Theodore, Frederic, and Isabella return to the castle. Frederic recovers and explains to Manfred's wife, Hippolita, how exactly he came to be in Otranto: while he was at war, Frederic had a vision that warned him that his daughter was in danger. The vision directed him to a forest where he met a hermit. The hermit directed him towards a gigantic sword with an inscribed prophecy: Manfred, suddenly noticing the resemblance between Theodore and the hero Alfonso, tries again to secure Isabella's hand in marriage. This time he proposes to Frederic that they marry the other's daughters. At first, Frederic agrees, but the ghost of the forest hermit haunts him and he finally decides not to go through with the double marriage. Manfred is furious, and even more so when he learns that Theodore meets a lady at Alfonso's grave. Manfred convinced that Isabella is having an affair with Theodore, sneaks into the grave and fatally stabs the lady. Horrified, Manfred realizes that she has not killed Isabella but her own daughter, Matilda. Moments after Matilda's death, the castle wall behind Manfred collapses, revealing a gigantic vision of Alfonso. Alfonso's image declares that his grandson, Theodore, is the true heir of Otranto. Manfred then reveals that his grandfather poisoned Alfonso and usurped his throne. In an attempt to atone for his wrongdoing, Manfred agrees to abdicate the throne. The novel ends with Frederic offering Isabella's hand in marriage to Theodore. Although he eventually agrees to marry Isabella, Theodore mourns the loss of his true love, Matilda, for many years.
