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Hace 4 días · No. 45, on the west side of the square, was the house of the great Lord Clive, the founder of our Indian Empire—"that second Kouli Khan," as Horace Walpole styles him. Sated with success and honours, his restless spirit seems to have enfeebled his nervous system, and there is too much reason to fear that he fell by his own hand, in November ...
Hace 2 días · The representative text of this chapter is Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), often read as an idealisation of a Gothic past. Edelman refutes this argument by contending that the novel’s engagement with the supernatural was to get at the truth of biological origins, as supported by Walpole’s borrowings of concepts and terms from embryological scientific models.
Hace 2 días · I think it even better that its predecessor, Circus of Wonders, which enjoyed deserved success. The Burial Plot, by Elizabeth Macneal, Picador, £18.99. Set in a convincingly imagined Victorian ...
Hace 1 día · Influenced. Post-Gothic, Gothic Revival architecture, Baroque Gothic. Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. [1] It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by ...
Hace 2 días · Walpole House was the first residence west of the Royal Hospital, on the south side of Paradise Row. The whole of the external appearance of the present building is from the design of Sir John Soane, and dates from 1810, with the exception of the south-west extension, which has been made since.
Hace 4 días · Many scholars attribute Horace Walpole’s gothic narrative Castle of Otranto (1764) as the first horror novel composed in English but Beware the Cat implements many of the genre’s conventions ...
Hace 5 días · Based on this, Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754 to mean inventions or discoveries made by accident. Science and technology offer many anecdotes of serendipitous discoveries and ...
