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  The Castle of Otranto (Owc) * 2014

  Walpole, Horace

  Kiadó: Oxford University Press

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  *A new edition of one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels, the best introduction to the work that inaugurated a literary genre.*Nick Groom's wide-ranging introduction explores the novel's Gothic context in the cultural movement that affected political and religious thinking before Walpole developed it as a literary style, helping to explain the novel's impact on contemporaries,its importance, and Walpole's pioneering innovations.*Up-to-date bibliography and notes, drawing on the latest scholarship.*Useful chronology of Walpole and the Gothic context.*Appendix includes extracts from contemporary non-fiction by Walpole and Richard Hurd demonstrating the domestication of medieval Gothic for eighteenth-century readers that fed into The Castle of Otranto.New to this edition*New introduction by Nick Groom.*Up-to-date bibliography.*Fuller chronology of Walpole and seventeenth/eighteenth century Gothic.*New notes.*An appendix with extracts from contemporary non-fiction relating to the domestication of medieval Gothic for eighteenth-century readers.*Reset text.'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!'The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be atranslation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his weddingday, Manfred determines to marry the bride-to-be. The virgin Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages. Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and violent combat combine in a heady mix that terrified thenovel's first readers.In this new edition Nick Groom examines the reasons for its extraordinary impact and the Gothic culture from which it sprang. The Castle of Otranto was a game-changer, and Walpole the writer who paved the way for modern horror exponents.

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  ISBN: 9780198704447

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  The Vampyre and Other Tales of The Macabre (Owc)

  Polidori, John

  Kiadó: Oxford University Press

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  John Polidori's classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg,J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward

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  ISBN: 9780199552412

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  Mysteries of Udolpho (Owc) * (2009)

  Radcliffe, Ann

  Kiadó: Oxford University Press

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  * The only edition available, updated with expanded notes`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.'Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in theAppenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration.A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time,with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: `permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.

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  ISBN: 9780199537419

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