The Origins of the Fantastic in Horace Walpole’s Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto
Widely considered the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) is twice prefaced by an author who is aware of the risks he was taking in challenging the contemporary literary canon. Both texts lay out some of the Gothic particularities found not only in subsequent narratives of this kind, bu...
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Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Atlantis |
| Online Access: | https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/926 |