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Name: Horace Walpole
Variant Name: William Marshal
Birth Date: September 24, 1717
Death Date: March 2, 1797
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole was a significant figure in literary history, but his reputation would stand even higher if he had excelled in what today are regarded as the "major" genres. He wrote a pioneering book which initiated the Gothic novel; he produced a...
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Biography of Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole is known to literary scholars as the founder of a significant literary genre, the gothic novel, which he initiated with the publication of The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of...
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Biography of Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole's literary productions reflect an extraordinary range of talents and interests: author of the first and most influential Gothic novel in English and of the first example of Gothic drama, he was also a poet, an indefatigable letter...


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Horatio Walpole ( 1717-09-24 – 1797-03-02 ), 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole , was a British politician and writer, noted for his collected letters and for having written the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of Otranto...


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Horace Walpole - (1717 - 1797) Summary
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Horace Walpole - (1717 - 1797) English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian, essayist, playwright, and letter writer. One of the most flamboyant personalities in eighteenth-century English letters, Walpole is often considered the outstanding...
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Horace Walpole Summary
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Born September 24, 1717London, EnglandDied March 2, 1797London, England Writer, historian,...
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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Information
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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September, 1717 – 2 March, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and cousin of Lord Nelson. His Letters are highly readable, and give a vivid picture...


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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Queering Horace Walpole.(literature of history of sexuality)
06/22/2006: 6,647 words, approx. 22 pages
What does it mean to talk about sexuality in the eighteenth century? What can historians of sexuality accomplish without the keyhole testimonies that prove our subjects had sex with members of their own gender? Scholars often, for obvious reasons, ignore the nagging sense...
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Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jess M. Stein
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In the following essay, Stein examines Walpole's attitude toward Shakespeare—especially through his defense of Shakespeare against Voltaire. Stein concludes that, although Walpole regarded Shakespeare, highly he was not one of Walpole's literary influences.
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Critical Essay by Eino Railo
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In the following excerpt from The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism (1964), Railo discusses the importance of castle imagery—and specifically Strawberry Hill—to The Castle of Otranto.
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Critical Essay by Judith Wilt
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In the following excerpt from her Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (1980), Wilt examines the religious import of Walpole's Gothic tale.
 


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