Origins of the Gothic: The British Novel in the 18th Century

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Origins of the Gothic: The British Novel in the 18th Century BBC Interview with Chris Baldick (Prof. of English at Goldsmiths), Novelist and Journalist A. N. Wilson, and Emma Clery (Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054792

Horace Walpole B. 24 September 1717; D. 2 March 1797 Best known novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764)

The Castle of Otranto (1764) Generally regarded as the first gothic novel Preface to 2nd edition has since been called a manifesto for a gothic aesthetic

3 Early Meanings of the “Gothic” Gothic as History of the Goths destroying the classical Roman Empire Gothic as a matter of taste, indicating the unfashionable or aesthetically “obsolete” Gothic as deep British past, framing early Goth invaders of Britain as bearers of a constitutional form of government

A Philosophical Inquiry into the origin of our ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful, Edmund Burke

Ann Radcliffe B. 9 July 1764; D. 7 February 1823 Greatest literary contribution considered The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818) Considered a parody of Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (1818) Authored by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818 Shelley was the daughter of feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindications of the Rights of Woman (1792)