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ISBN
9781551113043

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Broadview Press
ISBN-10
155111304X
ISBN-13
9781551113043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038646659

Product Key Features

Book Title
Castle of Otranto and the Mysterious Mother
Number of Pages
357 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
General, Literary, Gothic, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Author
Horace Walpole
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-272906
Reviews
"Frederick Frank brings together Walpole's controversial play The Mysterious Mother and his seminal Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto in this authoritative edition. Frank's masterly introduction transports the modern reader back to a fresh appreciation of Walpolian 'gloomth.' The edition is an indispensable addition to every Gothicist's book-shelf as well as an invaluable text for students, scholars, and general readers alike." - Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, Bristol"A valuable tool for any scholar of the Gothic, and especially of Walpole, this book includes a chronology of Walpole's life and work, a collection of his correspondence, responses and reactions to the texts, and a guide to the aesthetic and intellectual backgrounds influencing both texts." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
828/.609
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Horace Walpole: A Brief Chronology Publication History of The Castle of Otrantoand The Mysterious Mother Using the Edition The Castle of Otranto; A Gothic Story Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Sonnet to the Right Honourable Lady Mary Coke The Mysterious Mother; A Tragedy Preface to the 1781 Edition Advertisement from the Publishers Appendix A: Walpole's Correspondence and Strawberry Hill The Castle of Otrantoin Walpole's Letters The Mysterious Motherin Walpole's Letters The Little Gothic Villa at Strawberry Hill Appendix B: Responses and Reactions Three Early Reviews of The Castle of Otranto Notices of The Mysterious Mother Two Poems: Ann Yearsley's "To the Honourable H------EW------E, on Reading THE CASTLE OF OtRANTO December, 1784" and John Courtenay's "Letter the Seventh,Naples, April 16, 1793" Comments on The Castle of Otrantoand The Mysterious Motherby Early Readers Appendix C: Aesthetic and Intellectual Backgrounds The Graveyard Poets: Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Dyer, David Mallet, Edward Young, Robert Blair, MarkAkenside, William Collins, Thomas Warton the Younger, Thomas Gray From James Hervey's Meditations Among the Tombs From Bishop Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance From Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Appendix D: Sir Walter Scott's Introduction to the 1811 Edition of The Castle of Otranto Glossary Bibliography
Synopsis
"[This] edition is an indispensable addition to every Gothicist's book-shelf." -- Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, Bristol, This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole. Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized country house, The Castle of Otrantobecame an instant and immediate classic of the Gothic genre as well as the prototype for Gothic fiction for the next two hundred years. Walpole's brooding and intense drama, The Mysterious Mother, focuses on the protagonist's angst over an act of incest with his mother, and includes the appearance of Father Benedict, Gothic literature's first evil monk. Appendices in this edition include selections from Walpole's letters, contemporary responses, and writings illustrating the aesthetic and intellectual climate of the period. Also included is Sir Walter Scott's introduction to the 1811 edition of The Castle of Otranto.
LC Classification Number
PR3757.W2C3 2003

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