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Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of a young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences.
This collection illustrates the range and attraction of the gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is alos a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and namesake of his cousin Horatio Nelson. William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist.
Mary Shelley was an English novelist, married to the notable Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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"A very usable selection of the best examples of the genre."--Waalace Flanders, University of Pittsburgh
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0192823310
- ISBN 13 9780192823311
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages624
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