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The Castle of Otranto is the first supernatural English novel and is a singularly influential work of Gothic fiction. It blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors, pictures beginning to move, and doors closing by themselves ...
The list of Gothic NOVELS (rather than stories)in chronological order which make the grade are:Horace Walpole's CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764), ClaraReeve's THE CHAMPION OF VIRTUE (1777), WilliamBeckford's VATHEK (1786), Ann Radcliffe's THEMYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (1794), Matthew Gregory Lewis'sTHE MONK (1795), Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (1818),John Polidori's VAMPYRE (1819), Charles R. Maturin ...
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 list of Gothic NOVELS (rather than stories)in chronological order which make the grade are:Horace Walpole's CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764), ClaraReeve's THE CHAMPION OF VIRTUE (1777), WilliamBeckford's VATHEK (1786), Ann Radcliffe's THEMYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (1794), Matthew Gregory Lewis'sTHE MONK (1795), Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (1818),John Polidori's VAMPYRE (1819), Charles R. Maturin ...
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 ...
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7 de jul. de 1994 · Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers.
