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15 de may. de 2024 · Horace Walpole (1717–97) was the supreme dilettante and witty social commentator of the century. An ‘arbiter of taste’ and connoisseur of the arts, he played a large part in changing fashion and taste, and was proud of influencing others to follow his lead.
20 de may. de 2024 · The term Gothic novel refers to European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries. The first Gothic novel in English was Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1765).
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Hace 3 días · The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole 's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis.
8 de may. de 2024 · See the supplementary material for more information about Horace Walpole's life and work, including biography and context, literary criticism, and searchable online texts. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Publication Date: 1764.
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Hace 4 días · Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Quite remarkably, Horace Walpole (1717-97) was responsible for both the first Gothic novel and the first Gothic ...
8 de may. de 2024 · Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. When he used the word it meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages’.
28 de may. de 2024 · First published on Christmas Day 1764, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto is credited as the first Gothic novel. At the time, Gothic was considered a derogatory term to describe “barbarians.” Walpole’s love of medieval Gothic began with the renovations of his home at Strawberry Hill.
