write a short summary on castle of oranto
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The castle of otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole . It is generally regards as the first notive novel.In the second edition, Walpole appiled the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitles - 'A Gothic story' . The novel merged mediavaslim and terror is the style that has endured ever since . The aesthetic of the book shapes modern day - Gothic book , film, art, music, and the goth subculture.
The novel initiated a literary genre which would become popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Robert Louis Stevenson etc...
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