SOURCE: "Gothic, Gothicism, and Gothicists," in The Adversary Literature: The English Novel in the Eighteenth Century—A Study in Genre, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
In this essay, Karl discusses elements of different genres found in The Castle of Otranto.
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