Castle of Otranto : a gothic story ; and, The mysterious mother : a tragedy

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionHorace Walpole: A Brief ChronologyPublication History of The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious MotherUsing the EditionThe Castle of Otranto; A Gothic StoryPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionSonnet to the Right Honourable Lady Mary CokeThe Mysterious Mother; A TragedyPreface to the 1781 EditionAdvertisement from the PublishersAppendix A: Walpole’s Correspondence and Strawberry HillThe Castle of Otranto in Walpole’s LettersThe Mysterious Mother in Walpole’s LettersThe Little Gothic Villa at Strawberry HillAppendix B: Responses and ReactionsThree Early Reviews of The Castle of OtrantoNotices of The Mysterious MotherTwo Poems: Ann Yearsley’s “To the Honourable H———EW———E, on Reading THE CASTLE OF OtRANTODecember, 1784” and John Courtenay’s “Letter the Seventh,Naples, April 16, 1793”Comments on The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Motherby Early ReadersAppendix C: Aesthetic and Intellectual BackgroundsThe Graveyard Poets: Alexander Pope, Thomas Parnell, John Dyer, David Mallet, Edward Young, Robert Blair, MarkAkenside, William Collins, Thomas Warton the Younger, Thomas GrayFrom James Hervey’s Meditations Among the TombsFrom Bishop Richard Hurd’s Letters on Chivalry and RomanceFrom Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulAppendix D: Sir Walter Scott’s Introduction to the 1811 Edition of The Castle of OtrantoGlossaryBibliography