The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy

The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy

The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The Letters of Horace Walpole

The Letters of Horace Walpole PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Selected Letters of Horace Walpole

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole PDF Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Constantine to Grazing

Constantine to Grazing PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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ISBN: 9780300027143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1153

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These are correspondences of 194 letters to Walpole from Conway and from his wife, Lady Ailesbury (as well as one from his sister Mrs. Harris). The letters first published in this correspondence amplify and modify the accepted public image of Conway as a fearless soldier and perceptive statesman who saw that it was impossible to subjugate the American colonies.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill PDF Author: Yale Center for British Art
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the center of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of 18th-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armor, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third PDF Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Dodsley
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Walpoliana

Walpoliana PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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The Castle of Otranto Illustrated

The Castle of Otranto Illustrated PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and 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". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture

Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann

Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann PDF Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 571

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Extravagant Narratives

Extravagant Narratives PDF Author: Elizabeth Jane MacArthur
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400860822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme du Deffand's correspondence with Horace Walpole, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose propose an alternative to closure-oriented theories of narrative as they uncover an interplay between two forces: a tendency towards closure and meaning (metaphor) and a tendency towards openness and desire (metonymy). While such an interplay structures all narrative, the epistolary form differs from the third or first person in the extent to which metonymy predominates. The author shows how critics and editors of correspondences have attempted to control their metonymy, channeling epistolary energy into univocal meaning. By juxtaposing real and fictional epistolary works, MacArthur reveals the similarities between the two, particularly their "extravagance": ambiguity, openness, and forward-moving energy. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.