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    Imagining the Undefined Castle in The Castle of Otranto: Engravings and Interpretations

    Lindfield, PN (2017) Imagining the Undefined Castle in The Castle of Otranto: Engravings and Interpretations. Image & Narrative, 18 (3). pp. 46-63. ISSN 1780-678X

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    Abstract

    The Castle of Otranto was a pioneering work: the second edition is the first piece of literary work to include “a Gothic story” in its title, and it is frequently held up as the first in a long line of Gothic novels. Literary scholars have afforded it significant attention, but little has been written about Otranto’s range of engraved illustrations, first incorporated in the sixth, 1791, edition. This essay examines how the novel was visualised through Georgian engravings, and questions whether they present a castle that we can immediately recognise, to use Walpole’s phrase, as a “child of Strawberry [Hill]”, his Gothic villa.

    Item Type: Article (Article)
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 22 Feb 2018 12:56
    Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    Additional Information: This is an Open Access article published in Image & Narrative, copyright The Author(s).
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Research Centres > History Research Centre
    Subject terms: 1902 Film, Television And Digital Media, 2005 Literary Studies, 1203 Design Practice And Management
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/619995
    ISSN 1780-678X

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