Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling

Name: Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling
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ISBN: 9780321398925

ISBN-10: 0321398920

ISBN-13: 9780321398925

Edition: 2007

Authors: Horace Walpole, Henry Mackenzie, Laura Mandell

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From theLongman Cultural Editionsseries, The Castle of OtrantoandThe Man of Feeling, edited by Laura Mandell, presents a lively pairing of mid-eighteenth century works that mark a watershed in the history of the novel. nbsp; These short novelsHorace Walpolersquo;sThe Castle of Otranto(1764) and Henry Mackenziersquo;sThe Man of Feeling(1771)helped produce the turn from social realism to sentimentality and strangeness that will characterize works of the Romantic era as well as popular novels, Gothic spectacles, and all literary works interested in modern notions of individualism and human sympathy.nbsp; nbsp; Readers of 18 th century literature

Book details

List price: $53.32
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.23" wide x 5.43" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Horace Walpole was born in London on September 24, 1717 and educated at Eton College and Kings College, Cambridge. Upon his return from college, Walpole was elected to Parliament and served until 1768. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. He was known as The Earl of Orford. Walpole opened a private press that published his own works and that of his friends. He is well known for his Gothic romance novel, The Castle of Otranto. Horace Walpole died in London on March 2, 1797, after which his title became extinct since he never married or had children.



List of Illustrations


About Longman Cultural Editions


About This Edition


Introduction


Table of Dates


The Castle of Otranto (1764)


The Man of Feeling (1771)


Contexts


Sublimity, the Supernatural, the Real


Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful


Anna Letitia Aikin [Barbauld] and John Aikin, from "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment"


David Hume, from "Of Miracles"


Samuel Johnson, from The Rambler No. 4


Samuel Johnson, from Preface to Shakespeare


Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance


Clara Reeve, Preface to The Old English Baron


Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria


The Gothic Revival and Chivalry


William Chambers, from Civil Architecture 1759, 1791


John Carter, from "An Architect," Gentleman's Magazine 1799, 1801


Horace Walpole, from A Description of the Villa...at Strawberry-Hill


Horace Walpole and George Vertue, from Anecdotes of Painting


Alexander Pope, from Preface to The Works of Shakespeare


Richard Hurd, from Letters on Chivalry and Romance


Walter Scott, from "Essay on Chivalry, Romance, and then Drama"


Marriage, Obedience, Sentiment


Debating the Hardwicke Act


William Cobbett, from The Parliamentary History of England


Horace Walpole, from Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second


Tobias Smollett, from Nicolas Tindal, Continuation of The Complete History of England


Fleet Marriage


Thomas Pennant, from Of London


Alexander Keith, from Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages


Conduct Literature


George Savile, Lord Halifax, from The Lady's New-Years Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter


James Fordyce, from Sermons to Young Women


Cultures of Feeling


Francis Hutcheson, from An Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good


Samuel Richardson, Preface to Pamela


Adam Smith, from Theory of Moral Sentiments


Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Confessions


Henry Mackenzie, from The Lounger


Alexander Bicknell, from Painting Personified


Laurence Sterne, from Tristram Shandy


What the Reviewers Said


The Castle of Otranto


Critical Review, January 1765


Critical Review, June 1765


[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, February 1765


[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, May 1765


Horace Walpole, Letter in Reply to Mme. Du Deffand (March 1767)


Ann Yearsley, "To the Honourable H - E W - E, on Reading The Castle of Otranto" (December 1784)


Anna Letitia Barbauld, "Walpole" (1810)


Walter Scott, "Prefatory Memoir to Walpole" (1823, 1834)


The Man of Feeling


Monthly Review, May 1771


Critical Review, June 1771


London Magazine, August 1771


Town and Country Magazine, August 1771


Scots Magazine, August 1771


Anna Letitia Barbauld, "Mackenzie" (1810)


Walter Scott, "Prefatory Memoir to Mackenzie" (1823)


Further Reading