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13 de dic. de 2014 · Horace Walpole. The novel focuses on Manfred, the lord of the castle, as he seeks to avert an ancient prophecy by marrying his dead son's betrothed, Isabella, to produce another male heir. As the ...
7 de ene. de 2024 · Horace Walpole. The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford ( 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797 ), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a British politician and writer, noted for his collected letters and for having written the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of ...
These are qualities that it shared with Walpole’s Gothic fictions. There is hardly a feature of Gothic romance that does not appear in Otranto , and its gloomy castle, predatory patriarch and pursued virgin, along with the guilt-tormented Countess and evil friars of The Mysterious Mother , like the Gothic battlements and evocative interiors of Strawberry Hill, engendered a lasting and ...
Horace Walpole, 4º Conte di Orford, è stato uno scrittore inglese, considerato il fondatore della letteratura gotica, autore de Il castello di Otranto, primo romanzo horror propriamente detto, e attivo in diversi ambiti e con vari interessi. Famoso fu il suo vasto epistolario con cui intratteneva dotte disquisizioni sui più disparati argomenti.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford — also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto .
Il castello di Otranto (The Castle of Otranto) è un romanzo di Horace Walpole del 1764, considerato il primo romanzo gotico.Ambientata nella città salentina di Otranto, nell'Italia meridionale, è l'opera che diede l'avvio al genere letterario poi diffusosi tra il tardo Settecento e l'inizio dell'Ottocento, con autori come Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis ...
Horatio Walpole, 4. hrabě z Orfordu známý jako Horace Walpole (24. září 1717 Londýn – 2. dubna 1797 tamtéž) byl anglický politik, architekt a preromantický spisovatel. Je považován za zakladatele žánru gotického románu a je znám také jako autor mnoha čtivých dopisů, nabízejících živý obraz intelektuální aristokracie jeho doby.
