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20 gru 2010 · The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published for the first time in 1764 and called by his author “a wild story”, gave rise to gothic story, which became one of the most important horror “forefathers”. Walpole’s intention was to rejuvenate an old literary genre, the romance.
Strawberry Hill House —often called simply Strawberry Hill —is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the " Strawberry Hill Gothic " style of architecture, [ 1 ] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
Horace Walpole, właśc. Horatio Walpole 4. hrabia Orford (ur. 24 września 1717 w Londynie, zm. 2 marca 1797 tamże) – angielski pisarz i arystokrata, syn Roberta Walpole’a, pierwszego premiera Wielkiej Brytanii. Był jednym z twórców gotycyzmu. Od 1791 był hrabią Orford. Od 1741 zasiadał w brytyjskim parlamencie.
Walpole, in the company of the romantic scholarly Richard Bentley, made a gothic tour of the cathedrals, castles and abbeys of south-east England which overruled any classical aspirations for his new house.
14 lip 2016 · Horace Walpole (1717–97) is well known for two important Gothic projects: his villa, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (1747/8–80), and his novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764). These two manifestations of Walpole’s ‘Gothic imagination’ are frequently linked in critical literature on the Gothic Revival and medievalism more broadly; the ...
The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since.
