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The Castle of Otranto
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The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first Gothic romance, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and 19th century. Walpole, publishing under a pseudonym, claimed the novel was a translation of an Italian romance dating back to the time of the Crusades.
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Charley⁉️🦈
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“So fun, so camp, so ridiculous, so melodramatic, Fuck Manfred.
The virtuous damsels and villainous scoundrels mixed well with the silly little supernatural creatures and the creepy castle- it felt like a classic in every sense of the word. You have all the old fairytale feelings, just a bit darker (hence: gothic).
I had so much fun with this book! As a dramatic person myself, I love a good dose of melodrama and exaggerated emotion, and no books do that better than old books. There's just something about the earnestness (is that a word??😭) with which this book was written that made it so fun. I read with earnest, so I appreciate it when it feels like the writer had just as much enthusiasm.
I've always loved gothic fiction. This love has been exemplified as recently I've been diving into a lot more research on the genre for college, and so I was obviously inspired to read further into it. The first gothic novel ever written seemed like it should be the next book I got to, naturally.
This book was everything you'd expect from the first gothic novel. Every element that defines the gothic genre can be found within these pages, which I suppose could make it seem cliché or predictable to modern readers. However I wasn't really reading it for fun (although I thought it was very entertaining), more so for research, so since it does provide a lot of insight into how those clichés were formed, I didn't mind. It was very useful for seeing how this genre and it's tropes were created, and a good book to compare newer gothic books to to see how much the genre has grown. I'd recommend it if you have an interest in gothic fiction, for sure.
Also I adore Theodore🩷”Courtney Kuljis
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