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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 2003-04-26 with total page 13 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, 10 entries in the bibliography, 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 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 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 Castle of Otranto by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 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 by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto' is a gothic novel by Horace Walpole. It was first published in the year 1764. 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 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 . 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 (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 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 1883 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 (1764). By: Horace Walpole by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto (1764). By: Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-04 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 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 that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book 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. Plot: 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.......... 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. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. He was the son of the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. As Horace Walpole was childless, on his death his Baron Walpole barony descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford.....
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 2018-07-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. 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". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book 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 Semantic Charging of Space in "The Castle of Otranto" (Gothic Novel) by : Christina Gieseler
Download or read book The Semantic Charging of Space in "The Castle of Otranto" (Gothic Novel) written by Christina Gieseler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: The British Novel in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century, language: English, abstract: [...] An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors [Isabella] had passed, and which grating on the rusty hinges were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror [...] (Walpole 61). This passage of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto is only one example that shows how the construction of the setting in this novel strongly contributes to the atmosphere of the tale. Also in other passages it becomes obvious that the description of space and landscape conveys a specific meaning within the story, and even prefigures the development throughout the plot. Nünning and Nünning mention: "Räume [fungieren] nicht nur als Schauplätze [...], sondern [erfüllen] eine 'Erzählfunktion' [...], 'räumliche Oppositionen [werden] zum Modell für semantische Oppositionen'" (cf. 132). Thus, several places and the landscape depicted in the setting may function as semantic carriers (cf. ibid. 133). In this essay it will be examined in how far space is semantically charged in Walpole's work, and how this influences the plot, the atmosphere within the story, and the reader's perception of it. In addition, it will be shown that the semantic charging of the settings in The Castle of Otranto is also influenced by its being a Gothic novel. Therefore, a definition of the latter term will be given as well...
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.
