Patriarchal Narratives in the Work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee

2008 ◽  
pp. 8-31
Keyword(s):  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Clara Reeve ◽  
Sophia Lee ◽  
Patriarchal Narratives

Ancient Liberties

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Price
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Clara Reeve

Chapter One explores how the historical novel emerged in the 1760s as a form which at once employed and interrogated the dominant political narrative of ‘ancient liberties’. The notion of ancient constitutionalism allowed proposals for reform or for limits on monarchical power to be seen as attempts to ensure stability or, at most, (as with the theory of the Norman Yoke) to return to political origin. Yet for Horace Walpole ancient constitutionalism seems at times a troubled jest; Clara Reeve senses that the motif desperately needs reinforcement; and even after the more radical uses of the theory of the Norman Yoke by the Constitutional Society in the 1780s and 90s, Ann Radcliffe considers it a frozen political fable. Haunted by the spectre of the divine right of kings, in the historical novel the narrative of tradition ultimately proves an insufficient underpinning for the constitution.

The Secret of Divine Providence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
Clara Reeve ◽  
The Grotesque

The emphasis on political continuity in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution leads to a specifically Whig providentialism, examined in Chapter 3 through the work of Clara Reeve, Horace Walpole, and Matthew Lewis. In Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron, the country Whig version, stressing links with the medieval past, unites with Newtonian theology in which God’s finger is at work in every ‘natural occurrence’ to render the supernatural revelatory of this providential care. Divine justice and historical inexorability, romance, and realism are conjoined. By contrast, the sceptical Horace Walpole, representative of the Walpolian Whig narrative of political rupture, questions Providence in The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother, and substitutes himself as quasi-divine author, whose originality lies in the grotesque mixture of realist and supernatural elements. Matthew Lewis essays an eschewal of Providential mechanisms in The Monk but here grotesque features such as the bleeding nun disclose an aporia which reveals the limit of libertine desire and a negative supernatural.

scholarly journals GLORIOSOS BASTARDOS E CASAMENTOS DESFEITOS: ANTIQUARIATO, PROVA E O SUBLIME EM HORACE WALPOLE, CLARA REEVE E ANN RADCLIFFE (1764-1791) * GLORIOUS BASTARDS AND BROKEN MARRIAGES: ANTIQUARIANISM, PROOF AND THE SUBLIME IN HORACE WALPOLE, CLARA REEVE AND ANN R

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Pedro Telles da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Clara Reeve

<p><strong>Resumo</strong>: O objetivo deste artigo é compreender a relação entre a prática antiquária e o romance gótico na Inglaterra do século XVIII. Procura-se demonstrar como a prática antiquária serve de enquadramento ficcional para uma expansão do conceito de verossímil. Por meio do conjunto de procedimentos metodológicos do antiquário e de sua aproximação com a prática jurídica da época, elementos fantásticos que seriam inverossímeis passam a ser aceitos na trama do romance gótico. Estes elementos, por fim, abrem espaço para a experiência do sublime, de modo que o uso de procedimentos de prova e a escrita ficcional estavam intimamente ligados.  </p><p><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Antiquariato; Romance gótico; sublime. </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: This paper seeks to study the interrelation between antiquarian practices and the gothic novel in eighteenth-century England. It tries to show how antiquarianism provides a fictional framing for an expansion of the concept of verisimilitude. Because of the methodological procedures developed by the antiquarian and their rapprochement with the judicial practices of its time, fantastical elements that would be otherwise discarded as implausible are accepted in the gothic novel. Therefore those elements create the possibility of experiencing the sublime, so the procedures regarding the ascertainment of truth and proof of historical discourse are intimately entangled with fictional writing. </p><p><strong>Kewyords</strong>: Antiquarianism; Gothic novel; sublime.</p>

A Stellenbosch University #FeesMustFall Herstory: Reflections of a So-Called "Radical Black Intersectional Feminist"

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashanti Kunene
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Patriarchal Narratives

#FeesMustFall was a movement whose maxim was, “This revolution will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit.” This article is a self-reflection on my participation as a so-called radical black intersectional feminist in the #FeesMustFall movement at Stellenbosch University. It is also an attempt to provide evidence of the double erasures taking place in the mainstream patriarchal narratives about the #FeesMustFall movement. My story bears witness to the fact that queer black womxn were the backbone of the movement and that #FeesMustFall did indeed occur at Stellenbosch University. These constitute the double erasures taking place in terms of what is and can be known about the #FeesMustFall movement. My reflections serve to make a much-needed contribution to the body of knowledge produced about the #FeesMustFall movement.

Ancestral Piles

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Sean Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay examines Poe’s conception and use of the Gothic via his engagements with the work of earlier writers from Horace Walpole through Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Poe’s uses of the Gothic, and his relationship with the work of these writers, was informed by his philosophical materialism and framed by his dialogue with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Tracing these associations reveals Poe’s transformation of the idea of “Gothic structure” from an architectural model, the ancestral pile of the eighteenth-century Gothic, to one of energetic transformation, the electric pile featured in many of Poe’s tales.

Horace Walpole

1869 ◽  
Vol s4-IV (87) ◽  
pp. 175-175
Author(s):  
J. Yeowell
Keyword(s):  
Horace Walpole

Letter from Horace Walpole

1863 ◽  
Vol s3-IV (93) ◽  
pp. 284-284
Author(s):  
S. H.
Keyword(s):  
Horace Walpole
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