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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

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The complete online text of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.


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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 high-f...
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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 On...
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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 writer,...


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The Castle of Otranto Information
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The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 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, Castle, and Walpole by...


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Gothic Studies
The Castle of Otranto
05/01/2005: 1,302 words, approx. 4 pages
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, edited by Michael Gamer (New York: Penguin, 2001). The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother, by Horace Walpole, edited by Frederick S. Frank (Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2003). As Michael Gamer mentions at the opening...
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Gothic Studies
The Castle of Otranto/The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother
05/01/2005: 1,307 words, approx. 4 pages
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, edited by Michael Gamer (New York: Penguin, 2001). The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother, by Horace Walpole, edited by Frederick S. Frank (Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2003). As Michael Gamer mentions at the opening...
 


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Critical Essay by Devendra P. Varma
13,349 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following excerpt from The Gothic Flame (1957), Varma conjectures about the impetuses to Walpole's composing The Castle of Otranto and discusses its strong and lasting influence on the Gothic and other genres.
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Critical Essay by Karl J. Holzknecht
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In this essay, Holzknecht reevaluates Walpole's importance to the historical development of drama by examining the romantic elements of The Castle of Otranto alongside the unacted drama The Mysterious Mother.
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Critical Essay by Ian P. Watt
6,277 words, approx. 21 pages
In this essay, Watt contends that the elements of the "imaginative matrices" of The Castle of Otranto that particularly structure the Gothic tradition are Walpole's treatment of time and the family.
 
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Castle of Otranto Preface Analysis
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Analysis of the preface to Horace Walpoles' Castle of Otranto.


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