Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror by Angela Wright

Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Angela Wright

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In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and literature from France in the aftermath of the Sev...

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