Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling

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.

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.

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

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