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Horace Walpole. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈwɔːlpoʊl /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. [1] He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before ...
The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole.First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel.In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story.
Eighteenth-century Gothic novel. The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is a genre of Gothic fiction published between 1764 and roughly 1820, which had the greatest period of popularity in the 1790s. These works originated the term "Gothic" to refer to stories which evoked the sentimental and supernatural qualities of medieval romance with the new ...
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) is usually considered the first gothic novel. Walpole's declared aim was to combine elements of the medieval romance, which he deemed too fanciful, and the modern novel, which he considered to be too confined to strict realism. [74] More recently Ellen Moers, in Literary Women, developed a feminist ...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was a founder of literary realism, of which the novel of manners is a subgenre.. To realise upward social mobility in their societies, men and women learned etiquette in order to know how to get along with the people from whom they sought favour; an example of such instructions is the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a ...
Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the "Gothic Revival" style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole The Gothic Temple folly in the gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK, built as a ruin in 1741, designed by James Gibbs [7] Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers ...
From the growing madness of Prince Hamlet, to the violent ending to the constant reminders of death, to, even, more subtly, the notions of humankind and its structures and the viewpoints on women, Hamlet evokes many things that would recur in what is widely regarded as the first piece of Gothic literature, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ...
Strawberry Hill House —often called simply Strawberry Hill —is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the " Strawberry Hill Gothic " style of architecture, [ 1 ] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.