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- The Castle of Otranto is often referred to as the first Gothic novel. Which is fair enough, so far as it goes; Walpole’s novel did establish many key features of this genre, which has been popular with readers ever since The Castle of Otranto was first published on Christmas Eve, 1764. Like the Gothic novels, plays, stories, and films that followed it, The Castle of Otranto teases us by suggesting that the rules of the everyday world do not always apply, that sometimes only a supernatural explanation can account for everything we see. That idea—which runs against the grain of the assumption that the modern novel is all about realism—runs through books like Anne Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series and thousands more works of fiction, be they written as stories or novels, or filmed for cinema or television.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- Horace Walpole
- Provider:
- The Open Anthology of Literature in English
- Date Added:
- 07/10/2017
- License:
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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
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