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When to Crack the Door: Horace Walpole and the Gothic Architecture of Information.

This article argues that Horace Walpole's gothic tropes dramatize the consequences of sharing or blocking information at a time when its availability was expanding. The Castle of Otranto implies that better information sharing might have prevented the novel's greatest tragedy, the heroine Matilda's...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 485 - 512
Main Author: Frey, Anne
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press Jul2025
Subjects:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Gothic architecture
Information sharing
Social structure
Aristocracy (Social class)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost