Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling

by Walpole, Horace; MacKenzie, Henry; Mandell, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780321398925
• ISBN10: 0321398920
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-16
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

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. These short novels, published within the same decadeHorace Walpolers"sThe Castle of Otranto(1764) and Henry Mackenziers"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 (including film), and all literary works interested in modern notions of individualism and human sympathy.

Author Biography

Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio.  She has published articles about women writers and Romantic poetry in journals such as ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and, most recently, Victorian Studies and New Literary History.  In addition to the present volume, Mandell is general editor of the Poetess Archive Database, a full-text and bibliographic resource, and co-editor of the Romantic Chronology.  Her first book, Misogynous Economies, analyzes the relationship between misogyny, literariness, and the canon in eighteenth-century literature.

 

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
About Longman Cultural Editions	ix
About This Edition	xi
Introduction	xv
Table of Dates	xxiii
The Castle of Otranto (1764)	1	(102)
The Man of Feeling (1771)	103	(104)
Contexts	207	(80)
Sublimity, the Supernatural, the Real	209	(14)
from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful	209	(2)
Edmund Burke
from ``On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment''	211	(2)
Anna Letitia Aikin
John Aikin
from ``Of Miracles''	213	(2)
David Hume
from The Rambler No. 4	215	(2)
Samuel Johnson
from Preface to Shakespeare	217	(1)
Samuel Johnson
from The Progress of Romance	218	(2)
Clara Reeve
Preface to The Old English Baron	220	(1)
Clara Reeve
from Biographia Literaria	221	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Gothic Revival and Chivalry	223	(15)
from Civil Architecture 1759, 1791	223	(2)
William Chambers
from ``An Architect,'' Gentleman's Magazine 1799, 1801	225	(1)
John Carter
from A Description of the Villa . . . at Strawberry-Hill	226	(3)
Horace Walpole
from Anecdotes of Painting	229	(2)
Horace Walpole
George Vertue
from Preface to The Works of Shakespeare	231	(1)
Alexander Pope
from Letters on Chivalry and Romance	231	(4)
Richard Hurd
from ``Essay on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama''	235	(3)
Walter Scott
Marriage, Obedience, Sentiment	238	(12)
Debating the Hardwicke Act	238	(1)
from The Parliamentary History of England	239	(3)
William Cobbett
from Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second	242	(1)
Horace Walpole
from Nicolas Tindal, Continuation of The Complete History of England	243	(2)
Tobias Smollett
Fleet Marriage	245	(1)
from Of London	245	(1)
Thomas Pennant
from Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages	245	(1)
Alexander Keith
Conduct Literature	246	(1)
from The Lady's New-Years Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter	246	(2)
George Savile
Lord Halifax
from Sermons to Young Women	248	(2)
James Fordyce
Cultures of Feeling	250	(13)
from An Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good	250	(3)
Francis Hutcheson
Preface to Pamela	253	(1)
Samuel Richardson
from Theory of Moral Sentiments	254	(1)
Adam Smith
from Confessions	255	(2)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from The Lounger	257	(1)
Henry Mackenzie
from Painting Personified	258	(1)
Alexander Bicknell
from Tristram Shandy	259	(4)
Laurence Sterne
What the Reviewers Said	263	(18)
The Castle of Otranto	263	(1)
Critical Review, January 1765	263	(2)
Critical Review, June 1765	265	(1)
Monthly Review, February 1765	266	(1)
John Langhorne
Monthly Review, May 1765	267	(1)
John Langhorne
Letter in Reply to Mme. Du Deffand (March 1767)	267	(1)
Horace Walpole
``To the Honourable H--E W--E, on Reading The Castle of Otranto'' (December 1784)	268	(4)
Ann Yearsley
``Walpole'' (1810)	272	(1)
Anna Letitia Barbauld
``Prefatory Memoir to Walpole'' (1823, 1834)	273	(8)
Walter Scott
The Man of Feeling	281	(6)
Monthly Review, May 1771	281	(1)
Critical Review, June 1771	282	(1)
London Magazine, August 1771	282	(1)
Town and Country Magazine, August 1771	283	(1)
Scots Magazine, August 1771	283	(1)
``Mackenzie'' (1810)	283	(2)
Anna Letitia Barbauld
``Prefatory Memoir to Mackenzie'' (1823)	285	(2)
Walter Scott
Further Reading	287