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FURTHER READING

Biographies

Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon. Horace Walpole: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. 1960. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Vol. 9. Bollingen Series 35, Pantheon Books, 1961. 215 p.

Authoritative biography by a foremost Walpole scholar.

Mowl, Timothy. Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider. London: John Murray, 1996, 274 p.

Full-length biography of Walpole.

Criticism

Beers, Henry A. "The Gothic Revival." In A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century. 1899. Reprint edition, pp. 221-64. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1916.

Finds it impossible to take The Castle of Otranto seriously as a work of literature and difficult to understand the respect accorded to the work.

Birkhead, Edith. "The Beginnings of Gothic Romance." In The Tale of...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Horace Walpole (Essay Date 1764)
4. Title Commentary
   1. The Castle of Otranto
5. Further Reading