The Gothic Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Origins
The gothic novel is a living tradition, a form
that has enjoyed great popular appeal while provoking harsh critical judgments. It began with
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1765), then traveled through Ann Radcliffe, Matthew
Gregory Lewis, Charles Robert
Maturin, [The entire page is 7411 words long]
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