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Author : Clara Reeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
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:
Author : Kate Ferguson Ellis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060489
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Contested Castle written by Kate Ferguson Ellis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528799038
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron - Gothic Stories written by Horace Walpole and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eerie corridors of ancient strongholds to the depths of ancestral secrets, The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron are captivating works of classic horror with significant influence in the history of gothic fiction. Esteemed and highly influential, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) was England's first gothic horror novel, but when Clara Reeve rewrote the story as The Old English Baron (1778) over thirty years later, her work was received with heavy criticism. With looming curses and familial treachery, both works are set in the medieval era with atmospheres steeped in relentless suspense. Yet, where Walpole's prolific work blurs the line between realism and the supernatural, Reeve rewrote the fantastical story with features of naturalism for the modern reader. Discover the origins of gothic fiction in these two prolific novels and read their comparisons and critiques in this volume's featured excerpts by H. P. Lovecraft and Montague Summers.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494486
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction written by Jerrold E. Hogle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Clara Reeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Old English Baron written by Clara Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto: a Gothic Story ... And the Old English Baron: a Gothic Story. By Clara Reeve. With a Biographical Preface [signed Ω]. written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Clery
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040276
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Gothic Documents written by Emma Clery and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1790s, while across the Channel a political revolution raged, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. Ann Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis were only the most celebrated of a host of writers purveying a new brand of "Gothic" literature. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This is a landmark in the study of Gothic writing: nowhere else is the historical location of Gothic more richly or vividly illustrated.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190562X
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Three Gothic Novels written by Horace Walpole and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1974-06-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.
Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426842
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Romanticism and the Gothic written by Michael Gamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study to examine the links between high Romantic literature and what has often been thought of as a merely popular genre - the Gothic. Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why Romantic writers drew on Gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of Gothic literature, including its institutional and commercial recognition as a form of literature, played a fundamental role in the development of Romanticism as an ideology. In doing so he examines the early history of the Romantic movement and its assumptions about literary value, and the politics of reading, writing and reception at the end of the eighteenth century. As a whole the book makes an original contribution to our understanding of genre, tracing the impact of reception, marketing and audience on its formation.
Author : Robert F. Geary
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773491649
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Supernatural in Gothic Fiction written by Robert F. Geary and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the numinous and heavily psychological aspects of the Gothic have received serious attention, studies do not tend to examine the relation of the Gothic supernatural to the very different backgrounds of 18th-century and Victorian belief. This study examines the rise of the form, the artistic difficulties experienced by its early practitioners, and the transformation of the original problem-ridden Gothic works into the successful Victorian tales of unearthly terror. In doing so, this study makes a distinct contribution to our grasp of the Gothic and of the links between literature and religion.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto, written by Horace Walpole in 1764, is credited as being the original gothic novel. The first edition claimed to be a translation of an ancient, 16th-century?Italian manuscript, which had been recently discovered among the belongings of a Catholic family in the north of England. Furthermore, that manuscript was said to have its roots in tales from the time of the Crusades. All of this intrigue, of course, served to make the novel an instant success and launched the gothic fiction craze. This volume contains not only Walpole's story, but a brief biography of him written by later gothic novelist, Clara Reeve. She credits The Castle of Otranto with having influenced her book, The Old English Baron, which is also included here.
Author : Ann Radcliffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Romance of the Forest written by Ann Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Gregory Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Monk written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clara Reeve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Two Mentors written by Clara Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704445
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
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.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771961341
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Afterward written by Edith Wharton and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.
Author : James Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426001
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Contesting the Gothic written by James Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced understanding of their political import: Walpole's attempt to forge an aristocratic identity, the loyalist affiliations of many neglected works of the 1790s, a reconsideration of the subversive reputation of The Monk, and the ways in which Radcliffean romance proved congenial to conservative critics. Watt concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and examines the process by which the Gothic came to be defined as a monolithic tradition, in a way that continues to exert a powerful hold.
