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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Horace Walpole"”.
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Horace Walpole as a Critic of British Public Address
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… and its fragmentary style, the novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen reveal similar treatments of the sexuality of their characters. The implementation of key Gothic elements—such as the castle, tyrannical father, and distressed damsel—serve to propel the novels’ …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… following texts form the heart of the thesis: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and political discourse, this dissertation argues that that historical romance maintained a continuously evolving literary presence in eighteenth-century …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… an extra-illustrated book created in response to Walpole’s own extra-illustrated version of the guide to Strawberry Hill that he first published in 1774. The Fashion & Folly extra-illustrated proposal is a document of curatorial practice, a working proposal and an experiment in the revival and …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… alternative. In my first chapter I argue that Horace Walpole’s neo-Gothic style was not, as many scholars have suggested, informed by Burke’s concept of the sublime. Rather, I demonstrate that Walpole was critical of what he saw as Burke’s exaltation of a kind of ‘holy terror’. Walpole, I …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… just as there is poetry-in-painting. Horace Walpole wrote that «Poetry, Painting and Gardening, or the science of Landscape, will forever by men of taste be deemed Three Sisters, or the Three New Graces who Dress and adorn nature». It must be pointed that, just as the name suggests, …