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Book Synopsis The Sublime in the English Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole ́s The Castle of Otranto by : Carolin Kollwitz
Download or read book The Sublime in the English Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole ́s The Castle of Otranto written by Carolin Kollwitz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-04-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0 (B), Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: HS Novels of the Romatic Period, language: English, abstract: In this paper I will examine the Gothic sublime by using the example of Horace Walpole ́s novel The Castle of Otranto. I want to examine the features of the Gothic sublime: what was new and different about it? how is this reflected in the novel?; in order to prove the importance of Walpole ́s work. It marks, in a certain aspect, a turning point in literature, since it is regarded the first Gothic novel. I will argue that the horror as developed in The Castle of Otranto is not simply based upon the appearance of ghosts and supernatural events, but rather a subtle kind of horror. Firstly, an introduction into the Gothic novel in general, its characteristic features, and the examination of the cultural background of English Gothic fiction shall give a brief overview over the topic. Secondly, I will examine the means by which Walpole evokes fear in the reader, and the effects they had.
Book Synopsis The Darkness of Castle Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Darkness of Castle Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Castle of Otranto" tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. On the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella, 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. 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, whom he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. "The Old English Baron" is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto. The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that Arthur Lord Lovel, the friend of his youth, is dead. His cousin Walter Lord Lovel had succeeded to the estate, and sold the family castle to the baron, Fitz-Owen. Among the baron's household were his two sons and daughter Emma, several young gentlemen relations being educated with the sons, and Edmund Twyford, the son of a peasant, who had been brought to live with them. When Sir Philip saw him, he took an immediate liking to him, being struck by his resemblance to his lost friend. The Knight proposing to take him into his own family, being childless, Edmund preferred to remain with the baron, receiving however an assurance that if ever he was in need of it, Sir Philip would renew his offer.
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother written by Horace Walpole and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Spectres of Antiquity by : James Uden
Download or read book Spectres of Antiquity written by James Uden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. But what about the ghosts of the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study to describe the relationship between Greek and Roman culture and the Gothic novels, poetry, and drama of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rather than simply representing the opposite of classical aesthetics and ideas, the Gothic emerged from an awareness of the lingering power of antiquity. The Gothic reflects a new and darker vision of the ancient world: no longer inspiring modernity through its examples, antiquity has become a ghost, haunting contemporary minds rather than guiding them. Through readings of works by authors including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, and Mary Shelley, Spectres of Antiquity argues that these authors' plots and ideas preserve the remembered traces of Greece and Rome. James Uden provides evidence for many allusions to ancient texts that have never previously been noted in scholarship, and he offers an accessible guide both to the Gothic genre and to the classical world to which it responds. In fascinating and compelling detail, Spectres of Antiquity rewrites the history of the Gothic, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a far deeper sense of history than has previously been assumed.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and early 19th century, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his only son on his wedding day, Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, determines to marry the bride-to-be, setting himself on a course of destruction.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing and charming Gothic novel, which is remarkable for its masterful blend of ancient and modern romance. It is a story of Manfred's son and heir to the title of Otranto. It was first published with pseudonym in 1764. It is an ostensible translation of an Italian story of the crusades' time. Charismatic ...
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto Novel by Horace Walpole Annotated by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto Novel by Horace Walpole Annotated written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.
Book Synopsis The Gothic Sublime by : Vijay Mishra
Download or read book The Gothic Sublime written by Vijay Mishra and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto. ( Gothic Novel ) (1764) by by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto. ( Gothic Novel ) (1764) by written by Horace Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century.
Book Synopsis The Old English Baron by : Clara Reeve
Download or read book The Old English Baron written by Clara Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story (Illustrated Edition) by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story (Illustrated Edition) written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto.Novel by by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto.Novel by written by Horace Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797) - also known as Horace Walpole - was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician 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, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier The initial 1764 edition was titled in full The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto. This first edition purported to be a translation based on a manuscript printed at Naples in 1529 and recently rediscovered in the library of "an ancient Catholic family in the north of England." This "ancient Catholic family" is possibly the Percy family, as Walpole would have known the Duke of Northumberland and his wife Elizabeth Percy, though this is not proven. The Italian manuscript's story, it was claimed, derived from a story still older, dating back perhaps as far as the Crusades. This Italian manuscript, along with alleged author "Onuphrio Muralto," were Walpole's fictional creations, and "William Marshal" his pseudonym. In the second and subsequent editions, Walpole acknowledges authorship of his work, writing: "The favourable manner in which this little piece has been received by the public, calls upon the author to explain the grounds on which he composed it" as "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former all was imagination and improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success...." There was some debate at the time about the function of literature, that is, whether or not works of fiction should be representative of life, or more purely imaginative (i.e. natural vs. romantic). The first edition was well received by some reviewers who understood the novel as belonging to medieval fiction, "between 1095, the era of the First Crusade, and 1243, the date of the last," as the first preface states; and some referred to Walpole as an "ingenious translator." Following Walpole's admission of authorship, however, many critics were loath to lavish much praise on the work and dismissed it as absurd, fluffy, romantic fiction.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto (Deluxe Library Binding) by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto (Deluxe Library Binding) written by Horace Walpole and published by Engage Classics. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred's son is set to be married but dies on the day of the wedding. Manfred believes this event is the beginning of an ancient prophecy telling of Manfred's downfall.
Book Synopsis The Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. Castle is thus generally credited with initiating the Gothic literary genre, one that would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole is arguably the forerunner of such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, and Daphne du Maurier.
