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ALBERTAZZI, Silvia. Il sogno gotico: fantasia onirica e coscienza femminile da Horace Walpole a Charlotte Brontë. Imola: Biblioteca di Spicilegio moderno, Galeati, 1980. [The Gothic dream: Oneiric fantasy and feminine conscience from Horace Walpole to Charlotte Brontë] [data]
AMES, Diane S. "Strawberry Hill: Architecture of the ' as if. ' " Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 8 (1979): 353-363- [data]
ASHLEY, Mike. "Walpole, Horace" In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, & Ghost Writers, Ed. David Pringle. Detroit, New York, Toronto, London: St. James Press, 1998: 615-617.
AUFFRET-BOUCÉ, Hélène. "Contraintes et libertés du désir dans The Castle of Otranto d'Horace Walpole," 0174
BAINES, Paul. "'This Theatre of Monstrous Guilt': Horace Walpole and the Drama of Incest." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28 (1999): 287-309. A study of Horace Walpole's Gothic drama, The Mysterious Mother. "While a psychoanalytic or personal reading of the play can only envisage it as a direct expression of Walpole's mental life, conscious or unconscious, the realization of the play as a collective document should stress to us that the play is open to different kinds of engagement. Its intense portrayal of family trauma, its fascination with verbal power, and its intertextual fusion of Greek and French dramatic material in a new Gothic form should point us beyond the temptation to reduce the play to a document of self-recognition."
BARRELL, R.A. "Horace Walpole and France." 0211
BARTH, Marilyn. "Exploring the Book Arts Through one Fine Copy of The Castle of Otranto" In The English Novel, Eds. Susan Spencer, Margo Collins. New York: AMS Press, 2001: 287-310.
BEDFORD, Kristina. " ' This Castle Hath a Pleasant Seat ': Shakespearean Allusion in The Castle of Otranto," 0175
BENTMAN, Raymond. "Horace Walpole's Forbidden Passion" In Queer Representations; Reading Lives, Reading Cultures, Ed. & Intro. Martin Duberman.. New York: NYU Press, 1997: 276-289. On homophobic themes in The Castle of Otranto. Links Walpole's homosexuality to the dream imagery of the novel.
BLAND, D.S. "Endangering the Reader's Neck: Background Description in the Novel." 0053
BLEILER, E. F. "Introduction" to Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre. 0213
BOTTING, Fred. "Gothic Forms: The Castle of Otranto" In Gothic. London & New York: Routledge, 1996: 48-54.
BRANDENBERG, Alice S. "The Theme of The Mysterious Mother." 0214
BRANTLINGER, Patrick. "Gothic Toxins: The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and Caleb Williams." In The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth Century British Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998: 46-68.
BURNEY, E. L. "Shakespeare in Otranto," 0215
C., R. W. " ' Castle of Otranto.' " 0216
CAMPBELL, Jill. " ' I Am No Giant ': Horace Walpole, Heterosexual Incest, and Love among Men." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39:3 (1998): 238-260.
CART, Michael. "Carte Blanche: What Walpole Wrought; or The Horror! The Horror!" The Booklist 94:4 (1997): 395-398. On the genesis of The Castle of Otranto and the extending influence of Otranto's themes and props.
CLARKE, A. H. T. "Strawberry Hill." 0218
CLERY, E. J. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. London: Oxford University Press, 1996: vii-xxxiii. W. S. Lewis's edition of the novel with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery. "Walpole was the first to propose establishing a modern 'Gothic' style of fiction, and it was a proposal that at the time required considerable audacity."
________. "Against Gothic" In Gothick Origins and Innovations, Eds. Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage. Amsterdam; Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi; Costerus New Series 91, 1994: 34-43. On the reception of The Castle of Otranto by early reviewers. Also deals with Walpole's two Prefaces to the two first editions. The Prefaces in particular demonstrate "the The Castle of Otranto interprets its own project in material terms, most specifically with reference to class hierarchy and the development of a consumer society."
________. "Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford (1717-1797)" In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 246-249.
CONANT, Kenneth J. "Horace Walpole and the Gothic Revival." 0219
CONGER, Syndy M. "Faith and Doubt in The Castle of Otranto." 0220
CONSTANT Reader of Otranto. " ' Castle of Otranto,' " 0216
CORTI, Claudia. "Il Doppio coma paradigma fantastico-gotico: Testi di Horace Walpole e Beckford," 0176
CROOK, J. Mordaunt. "Walpole's ' little Gothic castle ': The Ups and Downs of Strawberry Hill, and its Future." Times Literary Supplement 28 February 1997: 15. Written to commemorate the bicentenary of Walpole's death. Says of the "present situation" of the building and grounds that the little Gothic castle "will have to be separated from St. Mary's University College and administered by English Heritage."
DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard. " ' The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving ': The Castle of Otranto" In Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and Ruin. London: Fourth Estate, 1998: 135-150.
DOBRÉE, Bonamy. "Horace Walpole." 0221
DOLAN, Janet A. "Horace Walpole's The Mysterious Mother: A Critical Edition." 0222
DOLE, Carol M. "Three Tyrants in The Castle of Otranto." 0177
DOUGHTY, Oswald. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto, 0223
DRAKE, George A. "Historical Space in the Eighteenth-Century Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International 58:6 (1998): 2222A (University of Washington). Historical space is a chronotope (time-space) that informs literary representations of history during the "long" eighteenth century. It arises with the great transformations of space produced by exploration, nationalism, and scientific discourse and in the debates between monumental and antiquarian historians about historical evidence and causality." Applies this concept to the Gothic novels of Walpole, Reeve, and Radcliffe, works that are "profoundly unhistorical in the public sense, but whose gothic protagonists obsessively seek visible signs of their private histories in social space, and their interpretations of space mirror their social position."
EASTWOOD, Sidney K. "Horace Walpole." 0224
EHLERS, Leigh A. "The Gothic World as Stage: Providence and Character in The Castle of Otranto." 0225
FAIRCLOUGH, Peter. "Introduction" to Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, Frankenstein. 0229
FINCHER, Max. "Guessing the Mould: Homosocial Sins in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." Gothic Studies 3 (2001): 229-245. A "queer critique" of Beckford's Vathek and Walpole's Castle of Otranto in light of contemporary queer theory. Beckford's "failure to accommodate his homoerotic desire within a model of Romantic love nourished the Gothic vision of Vathek." In contrast, "In The Castle of Otranto the predominant themes of the problems of marriage, courtship between differing classes and incestuous desire are not ostensibly homoerotic."
FRANK, Frederick S. "Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story" In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. 0179
________. "Proto-Gothicism: The Infernal Iconography of Walpole's Castle of Otranto," 0180
________. "Horace Walpole (1717-1797)." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 437-448. Discusses the historical importance of the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, and the first Gothic drama, The Mysterious Mother, to the evolution of the Gothic genre as a whole. Walpole crafted his Gothic to enable the supernatural mechanisms to produce a suspension of reason within enclosed settings where readers might feel just as lost and disoriented as the characters entrapped by the Gothic world.
________. Introduction to The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. Forthcoming.
FUJIMOTO, Yukio. "From Amusement to Quest: The Castle of Otranto and Edgar Huntley [sic" 0230
GAMER, Michael. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. New York: Penguin Books, 2001: xiii-xxxv.
GARDNER, Elizabeth. The Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw. Willoughby, N.S.W. : Deed Publishing, 1993. A casebook intended to introduce high school students to the Gothic novel.
GARRIDO, Carlos. "El Nacimento de la novela gotica." 0181
GOFF, Penelope Hope. "The Jehovah Imperative: Images of Incest and Blood Sacrifice in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Master's Thesis, University of Rhode Island, 1992.
GRAY, Jennie. Horace Walpole and William Beckford: Pioneers of the Gothic Revival. Chislehurst, UK: The Gothic Society; Monograph Series 1, 1994. [data]
GREIN, Birgit.Von Geisterschlossern und spukhausern: Das motiv des gothic castle von Horace Walpole bis Stephen King. Wetzlar: Forderkreis Phantastik in Wetzlar, 1995. [Of ghostly castles and spooky houses: The motif of the Gothic castle from Horace Walpole to Stephen King
HARFST, Betsy Perteit. "Horace Walpole and the Unconscious: An Experiment in Freudian Analysis." 0233
________. Horace Walpole and the Unconscious: An Experiment in Freudian Analysis. 0234
HAVENS, Munson A. Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press. 0235
HAZEN, Allen T. A Bibliography of Horace Walpole. 0236
HENDERSON, "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto, Shorter Novels of the Eighteenth Century. 0237
HIRAI, Masako. "Burke's Sublime and The Castle of Otranto: The Gothic Image and the Novel." Kobe College Studies 40:3 (1994): 1-12.
HOGAN, Charles Beecher. "The Theatre of George III," Horace Walpole: Writer, Politician, and Connoisseur. Essays on the 250th Anniversary of Walpole's Birth, Ed. Warren Hunting Smith. New Haven: Yale UP, 1967: 227-240.
HOLZKNECHT, Karl J. "Horace Walpole as Dramatist." 0238
JACOBS, Edward. "Horace Walpole and the Culture of Triviality" In Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000: [data
JOHNSON, Anthony. "Gaps and Gothic Sensibility: Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, and Maturin" In Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, Eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995, 7-24. On abysses, voids, chasms, and other "gapped structures" in The Castle of Otranto and various other Gothic works. Considers their "function with respect to one small but telling component of the Gothic aesthetic: the idea of the gap."
KAHN, Madeleine. " 'A By-Stander Often Sees More of the Game Than Those That Play ': Ann Yearsley Reads The Castle of Otranto," Bucknell Review 42:1 (1998): 59-78. Examines Yearsley’s poem "TO THE HONORABLE H_____E W_____E, ON READING THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. December, 1784" and analyzes her response to the first Gothic novel. The poem uses Walpole’s character Bianca as the narrator. "Yearsley’s Bianca takes offense at [Walpole’s] characterization of her as ’a creature of womanish terror and foibles’ who is significant only for the ways in which she furthers events or promotes the development of other characters. . . . Yearsley’s Bianca is also the milkwoman poet addressing one of the most exalted aesthetes of the day."
KALLICH, Martin. Horace Walpole. 0239
KETTON-CREMER, R.W. Horace Walpole: A Biography. 0240
LÉVY, Maurice. "Lecture plurielle du Château d'Otrante." 242
________. "Lecture plurielle du Château d'Otrante," Le Roman noir anglais dit gothique." Ed. Max Duperray. Paris: Ellipses, 2000, [data
LEWIS, Paul. "The Atheist's Tragedy and The Castle of Otranto: Expressions of the Gothic Vision." 0243
LEWIS, Wilmarth S. "The Genesis of Strawberry Hill." 0244
________. "Horace Walpole Reread." 0245
________. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. 0246
MACK, Robert. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole. London: Dent; Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1993, i- xxxvii.
MAGNIER, Mireille. "Sir Horace Walpole: Le Château d'Otrante, ébauche d'un retour au moyen âge des merveilles." 0183
MASSARA, Giuseppe. "G. B. Piranesi and the Novel." 0247
MC KINNEY, David. " ' The Castle of my Ancestors ': Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill." 0185
________. "History and Revivalism: Horace Walpole's Promotion of the Gothic Style of Architecture." 0186
MEHROTRA, Kevala-Krishna. Horace Walpole and the English Novel: A Study of the Influence of The Castle of Otranto 1764-1820. 0248
MENGELING, Marvin E. "Walpole's ' Otranto ': The Gothic Thrust Toward Heaven." 0249
MILLER, Norbert. Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole und die ästhetik der schönen unregelmässikeit. 0188
MORRISSEY, Lee. " ' To Invent in Art and Folly ': Postmodernism and Walpole's Castle of Otranto." Bucknell Review 41:2 (1998): 86-99.
MOWL, Timothy. Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider. London: John Murray, 1996.
MUDRICK, Marvin. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto. 250
PERKINSON, Richard H. "Walpole and a Dublin Pirate." Philological Quarterly 15 (1936): 391-400.
PETTIT, Alexander. "Anxiety, Political Rhetoric, and Historical Drama Under Walpole," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 1 (1994): 109. [data
PORTER, David. "From Chinese to Goth: Walpole and the Gothic Repudiation of Chinoiserie." Eighteenth Century Life 23 (1999): 46-58. [data]
PRAZ, Mario. "Introductory Essay" to Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, Frankenstein. 0229
RIELEY, John. "The Castle of Otranto Revisited." 0254
RIGGS, Blanche. "The Place of Horace Walpole in the Gothic Revival." 0255
ROSE, Edward J. "'The Queenly Personality': Walpole, Melville, and Mother." 0256
RUTHERFORD, S. "The Castle of Otranto," The Teaching of English 3 (1993): 38-44.
SABOR, Peter. " ' An old tragedy on a disgusting subject ' : Horace Walpole and The Mysterious Mother" In Writing and Censorship in Britain, Ed. Paul Hyland & Neil Sammells. London & New York: Routledge, 1992: 92-106.
________. Ed. The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1798. From the 1798 edition. Ed. & Intro. Peter Sabor. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. 5 vols. 2900 pp. [data]
SAMSON, John. "Politics Gothicized: The Conway Incident and The Castle of Otranto." 0189
SMITH, Horatio E. "Horace Walpole Anticipated Victor Hugo." 0259
________. "Strawberry Hill and Otranto." 0260
SOLOMON, Stanley J. "Subverting Propriety as a Pattern of Irony in Three Eighteenth Century Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, and Fanny Hill " 0261
SPURGEON, Caroline F. E. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto. 0263
STEIN, Jess M. "Horace Walpole and Shakespeare." 0264
STEVENSON, John Allen. "The Castle of Otranto: Political Supernaturalism." 0190
STOLER, John A. "Walpole, Horace" In Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s, Ed. Laura Dabundo. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992: 603-604. [data]
SUMMERS, Montague. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. 0265
________. "Strawberry Hill Castle." 0191
SVILPIS, J. E. "Coupling and Transgression in The Castle of Otranto and The Monk." 0192
TAPP, R. "Mothers and Fathers in Horace Walpole's Fiction," Master's Thesis, West Virginia University, 1975.
THACKER, Christopher. "That Long Labyrinth of Darkness" In The Wildness Pleases: The Origins of Romanticism. 0193
THIERGARD, Ulrich. "Schiller und Walpole: Ein Beitrage zur Schillers verhältnis zur schauerliteratur." 0266, 1922
TROTT, Nicola, ed. Gothic Novels: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. 900 pages of Gothic fiction supplemented by reviews, headnotes and introductions. Presents six key texts spanning the evolution of the Gothic genre: Walpole's Castle of Otranto, Reeve's Old English Baron, Beckford's Vathek, Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Maturin's "Tale of the Spaniard" from Melmoth the Wanderer. Since the anthology is designed for undergraduate courses, the omission of Lewis's Monk (or at least excerpts from it) is a marked flaw.
UNSIGNED. "MARCH 2nd, 1797: Death of Horace Walpole, ' Gothick ' Man of Letters," History Today 47: 3 (1997): 33. [data]
VALENSISE, Rachele. "The Castle of Otranto e l'incubo del potere." 0267
VARMA, Devendra P. "The Ripples from Otranto." 0200
________. "Horace Walpole." 0194
VERZEA, Ileana. Castelul din Otranto. 0195
WATT, Ian P. "Time and the Family in the Gothic Novel: The Castle of Otranto." 0196
WEIN, Toni. "Tangled Webs: Horace Walpole and the Practice of History in The Castle of Otranto." English Language Notes 35:4 (1998): 12-22. [data]
WELCHER, Jeanne K. "The Literary Opinions of Horace Walpole." 0271
WILLIAMS, Anne. "Monstrous Pleasures: Horace Walpole, Opera, and the Conception of Gothic." Gothic Studies 2:1 (2000): 104-118. A mock opera comique or tragique (take your choice) in four acts based on Walpole's Castle of Otranto introduces this exercise in definition. The author was inspired by the fact that "critics writing about opera always seemed to remark on the difficulties of defining the genre as frequently as do critics of the Gothic. Thus it occurred to me that it might be fun to see The Castle of Otranto as an opera as a way of beginning a paper about the difficulties of defining ' Gothic.' "
WRIGHT, Andrew. "Introduction" to The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Northanger Abbey. 0272
ZELENKO, T. V. "Osobennosti khudozhestvennoi sistemy romana goratsia uolpola 'Zamok Otranto.' " 0197