The Gothic novel did not spring overnight from the imagination of Horace Walpole

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The Gothic novel did not
spring overnight from the imagination of Horace Walpole in the 1760s. It had roots and a context, which help
explain its success at the time. For example, the rise of the Gothic novel can
be seen as:
—a reaction against the dominant cultural, philosophic, artistic
fashions of the late 17th and early 18th centuries (e.g.,
Enlightenment, Neo-classicism),
—a sympathetic reappraisal of earlier, disparaged traditions (e.g.,
medieval gothic architecture or, in literature, the medieval chivalric epic).
—an early manifestation of the Romanticism that would come fully
into its own in the early 19th century: i.e. apart from its
cultivation of supernatural fantasy, the Gothic was in various regards akin to
the misty elegiac imaginings of the ‘Graveyard Poets’, to Ossian and to the emergent
‘novel of sensibility’.
The first class
concentrates on surveying some of these associations to supplement Tutorial
discussion of the essay on Walpole.
Advance
assignment essay: “Horace Walpole wrote Castle
of Otranto in the 1760s, when the genre of Gothic novel did not yet exist.
Moreover, a number of the ingredients he used are drawn from established
traditions. Bearing these reservations
in mind, which features of the work he came up with seem to you to be most
characteristic of the Gothic tradition as it then emerged?” (Bring the completed essay with you to the
first class.)

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