"Hamlet and
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 49 (3): 667-692.
"Guessing the Mould: Homosocial Sins and Identity in
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto 7 Gothic Studies 3 (2001): 229-45.
De esta forma, "corria el ano 1764 [...]" cuando todo germino, cuando
Horace Walpole, "hijo del Primer Ministro del gobierno ingles" y "IV conde de Oxford", con gran clarividencia por haber sabido captar el cambio de sensibilidad que se estaba produciendo y que clamaba una atencion distinguida, inicio la tradicion de la novela gotica con la obra El castillo de Otranto.
THIS winter, following the small exhibition of Salvator Rosa's pictures at the Wallace Collection in 2005, his wild landscapes, which set the scene for such Gothic Novels as
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, reappeared at the Dulwich Gallery, London.
Projected on facing walls, two Super 8 films, Hippolyta and Manfred (both part of a longer film, A Recess and a Reconstruction, which Herve and Mailler will show for the first time this month), loosely evoked two key figures from
Horace Walpole's 1764 gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto.
The Culture Show (7.00pm) Andrew Graham-Dixon remembers war artist Henry Tonks, Mark Kermode celebrates the 50th anniversary of Peeping Tom, and Tom Dyckhoff visits
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House.
For a start, Blanning traces the early stirrings of romanticism back to the mid-18th century, pointing to Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise and Confessions as well as the Sturm und Drang of Goethe and his contemporaries and
Horace Walpole's Gothicism.
Old castles, old pictures, old histories, the babble of old people make one live back into centuries that cannot disappoint one,' So said
Horace Walpole [1717-97], youngest son of Great Britain's first prime minister, Robert Walpole.
Horace Walpole, whose Castle of Otranto (1764) is said to be the first Gothic novel, also wrote the first Gothic drama, The Mysterious Mother (1768).
The gothic convention with its secret history, as popularized by
Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, is replaced in the United States by closed local communities with requirements for membership (Isaac Mitchell's The Asylum; Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman Major Molineux').
Even a brief glimpse at the table of contents is rather awe-inspiring, as it surveys a range of authors, including Samuel Richardson, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville,
Horace Walpole, Pauline Hopkins, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, George Eliot, Nella Larsen, and Virginia Woolf.
The Gothic novel's "baptism" in England is often (arguably, as we will see) attributed to
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1765); its successive tradition has ventured into terrain as sophisticated as the novels of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
