LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Congreve’s The Way of the World
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Richardson’s Pamela
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Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
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Detailed explanation-1: -Generally regarded as the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, is generally viewed as the first Gothic novel. Its first edition, published in 1764, claimed to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’.
Detailed explanation-4: -William Beckford wrote the bestselling Gothic novel Vathek in French in 1782, with the English version being translated by a vicar four years later.
Detailed explanation-5: -The novel shows several Gothic elements such as mysterious settings, mysterious and suspenseful atmospheres, ancient prophecy, visions, high emotion, supernatural events, and women in distress. The novel shows basically all the elements of Gothic Literature.