The Castle of Otranto and the Mysterious Mother,9781551113043

The Castle of Otranto and the Mysterious Mother

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ISBN13: 9781551113043
ISBN10: 155111304X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Broadview Pr
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Summary

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 Otranto became 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9(1)
List of Illustrations
10(1)
Introduction 11(24)
Horace Walpole: A Brief Chronology 35(9)
Publication History of The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother 44(6)
Using the Edition 50(7)
The Castle of Otranto; A Gothic Story
57(110)
Preface to the First Edition
59(6)
Preface to the Second Edition
65(6)
Sonnet to the Right Honourable Lady Mary Coke
71(96)
The Mysterious Mother; A Tragedy
167(90)
Preface to the 1781 Edition
169(2)
Advertisement from the Publishers
171(86)
Appendix A: Walpole's Correspondence and Strawberry Hill 257(31)
1. The Castle of Otranto in Walpole's Letters
257(10)
2. The Mysterious Mother in Walpole's Letters
267(13)
3. The Little Gothic Villa at Strawberry Hill
280(8)
Appendix B: Responses and Reactions 288(18)
1. Three Early Reviews of The Castle of Otranto
288(5)
2. Notices of The Mysterious Mother
293(3)
3. Two Poems: Ann Yearsley's ``To the Honourable H---e W---e, on Reading The Castle of Otranto December, 1784'' and John Courtenay's ``Letter the Seventh, Naples, April 16, 1793''
296(6)
4. Comments on The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother by Early Readers
302(4)
Appendix C: Aesthetic and Intellectual Backgrounds 306(22)
1. The Graveyard Poets: Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Dyer, David Mallet, Edward Young, Robert Blair, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Thomas Warton the Younger, Thomas Gray
306(9)
2. From James Hervey's Meditations Among the Tombs
315(2)
3. From Bishop Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance
317(4)
4. From Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
321(7)
Appendix D: Sir Walter Scott's Introduction to the 1811 Edition of The Castle of Otranto 328(13)
Glossary 341(10)
Bibliography 351

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