Horace Walpole Essays

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The Castle of Otranto

When Horace Walpole wrote the first ever Gothic novel in 1764, the world had never seen anything quite like it before. In an age we now call the enlightenment, where knowledge, science and philosophy had made huge leaps forward, this book dared to...

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The Castle of Otranto

From the late-eighteenth to the early-nineteenth century, known as the Romantic period, there existed a shift in some cultural and artistic elements that leaned towards a revival of the Gothic. As well as a revival of the Gothic through...

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The Castle of Otranto

The most appealing aspect of the Gothic genre is its ability to scare the reader, without actually having a physical or harmful affect on her. However, in order to inflict terror upon the reader, the author must create realistic settings,...