Imagining the undefined castle in the Castle of Otranto: engravings and interpretations

Lindfield, Peter N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-9344 2017. Imagining the undefined castle in the Castle of Otranto: engravings and interpretations. Image & Narrative 18 (3) , pp. 46-63.

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Abstract

The Castle of Otranto was a pioneering work: the second edition was 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 engraved illustrations, first incorporated in the sixth, 1791, edition. This essay examines how the novel was visualised in 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
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Last Modified:	13 Jul 2023 13:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159877

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