Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Castle of Otranto" in English language version.
"...several readers, including William Mason, Thomas Gray, and John Langhorne, the reviewer for the Monthly Review, believed the work to be a genuine archival find
Transgressive social-sexual relations are the most basic common denominator of Gothic, and from the moment in the early pages of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto when Walpole's anti-hero Manfred presses his suit on the fiancee of his deceased son (and she flees into the long labyrinth of darkness in the subterraneous regions of the castle), a Gothic trope is fixed: terror is almost always sexual terror, and fear, and flight, and incarceration, and escape are almost always colored by the exoticism of transgressive sexual aggression.
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"...several readers, including William Mason, Thomas Gray, and John Langhorne, the reviewer for the Monthly Review, believed the work to be a genuine archival find
Transgressive social-sexual relations are the most basic common denominator of Gothic, and from the moment in the early pages of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto when Walpole's anti-hero Manfred presses his suit on the fiancee of his deceased son (and she flees into the long labyrinth of darkness in the subterraneous regions of the castle), a Gothic trope is fixed: terror is almost always sexual terror, and fear, and flight, and incarceration, and escape are almost always colored by the exoticism of transgressive sexual aggression.
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