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The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Obviously...
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oapen-20.500.12657-302082024-03-25T09:51:22Z The gothic novel in Ireland Morin, Christina Literature gothic novel Ireland Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto Thomas Leland Longsword The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley gothic genre gothic literature eigteenth century Irish literature England thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Obviously an important text in the evolution of the gothic mode, the ostensibly pioneering Castle of Otranto was actually preceded by two Irish novels: Thomas Leland’s Longsword (1762) and The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley (1760), by ‘A Young Lady’. Neither of these texts overshadows Walpole’s, but their omission from the literary history of the British gothic novel is nevertheless a telling indication of the exclusionary nature of current scholarly perspectives. Christina Morin’s adroit and percipient text reveals how the Gothic was very much an international genre. 2018-04-19 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:48:25Z 2020-04-01T12:48:25Z 2018-02-12 book 648369 OCN: 1038406087 9781526122308 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30208 eng application/pdf n/a 648369.pdf Manchester University Press 10.2307/j.ctv3zp024 100911 10.2307/j.ctv3zp024 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526122308 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester 100911 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Obviously an important text in the evolution of the gothic mode, the ostensibly pioneering Castle of Otranto was actually preceded by two Irish novels: Thomas Leland’s Longsword (1762) and The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley (1760), by ‘A Young Lady’. Neither of these texts overshadows Walpole’s, but their omission from the literary history of the British gothic novel is nevertheless a telling indication of the exclusionary nature of current scholarly perspectives. Christina Morin’s adroit and percipient text reveals how the Gothic was very much an international genre. |
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