 | Ronald R. Thomas - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 324 pages
...recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate."1 Here, at the beginning point of English gothic fiction, Horace Walpole joined the experience... | |
 | Wayne Andrews - Art - 1990 - 198 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Because this particular bored aristocrat was Horace Walpole, and because his literary ambitions were... | |
 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 228 pages
...keeping with Walpole's repeated characterization of Otranto as ajeu d'esprit, written hurriedly and begun "without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate" (see Walpole to William Cole, 9 March 1785, Correspondence, 1: 88). 98. Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom,... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 338 pages
...Matthew G. Lewis. Cambridge: Mass., 1961, 39, 213. 15. The Castle ofOtranto, 3-6. with Gothic siory) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase...hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began 10 write, without knowing in the least what I wanted to say or relate.16 And Mary Shelley, in her 1831... | |
 | Caroline Gonda - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...Walpole later claimed had inspired his Gothic tale: 'I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour' (p. ix). Conrad, the last of the usurper's line, destroyed by Otranto's real owner, Alfonso (who as... | |
 | Hendrik van Gorp - English fiction - 1998 - 124 pages
...recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. Ook in andere brieven (om aan Rev. William Mason) biedt hij ahw zijn excuses aan voor de haast waarin... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and on the upper banister of the great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' Walpole to the Rev. William Cole, 9 March 1765, cited in Introduction to The Castle ofOtranto, ed.... | |
 | Wendy C. Graham - Gothic literature - 1999 - 110 pages
...Hawthorne's works as it does in the works of early Gothic writers. Whereas Horace Walpole claims that he "sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what [he] intended to say or relate" and "completed [The Castle of Otranto] in less than two months,"35... | |
 | Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 788 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour' (letter to William Cole, 9 March 1 765). Many of the issues common to subsequent discourse about the... | |
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I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story) and that, on the uppermost bannister... 
