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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story (1777)

von Clara Reeve

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'Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.'When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend, Arthur,Lord Lovel, is no longer alive, and that the castle and estates of the Lovel family have twice changed hands. But a mysteriously abandoned set of rooms in the castle of Lovel promises todisclose the secrets of the past. After a series of frantic episodes and surprising revelations, culminating in a trial by combat, the crimes of the usurper and the legitimacy of the true heir are finally discovered.'The literary offspring of the castle of Otranto', as Reeve described it, The Old English Baron provides an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's groundbreaking work, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medieval England. Innovative and original in its day, Reeve's historical romance isincreasingly recognized as a major influence on the development of Gothic fiction.… (mehr)
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downgraded this from one to two stars after hearing so much about how this was Reeve's manifesto for the patriarchy. Suddenly the whole thing makes sense. Uck. ( )
  J.Flux | Aug 13, 2022 |
This isn't very good. The author wrote this as an attempt to produce something like The Castle of Otranto but without the unrealistic and over-the-top supernatural elements that jarred her out of the story. And, indeed, the supernatural elements here are almost subdued compared to Otranto. But what it makes up for in credibility, it more than loses in terms of predictability.

Also: emotions run dramatically wild.

Towards the end, the book needlessly drags out revealing the central conceit to side characters, with characters intentionally withholding crucial information so as to build up to an emotional tension in preparation for dramatic reveals and scenes of emotional release. That gets old really fast. Coupled with endless marriage preambles, it makes the final third a chore to sit through. ( )
  Petroglyph | Jan 16, 2019 |
Probably one that only need be read by the most committed fans of gothic fiction. Basically a toned-down "Castle of Otranto" with the setting changed and the outcome pretty obvious from the get-go. ( )
  JBD1 | Dec 23, 2015 |
The author says she wrote this in response to Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. It doesn't compare. Unlike Walpole, who made a private study of it, Reeve knows nothing about the Middle Ages. Consequently, her barons live and behave like Georgian country squires. She refers to the younger characters as "Mister" which is entirely anachronistic. And I think the narrowness of her own horizons shows in the way she spends pages on the division of the estates, right down to tableware and linens, like some penny-pinching housewife. Somehow the phrase "a nation of shopkeepers" sprang to mind.
Of academic merit only to people who study Gothic literature in depth.

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Clara ReeveHauptautoralle Ausgabenberechnet
Trainer, JamesHerausgeberCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
Watt, JamesEinführungCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
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In the minority of Henry the Sixth, King of England, when the renowned John Duke of Bedford was Regent of France, and Humphrey the good Duke of Gloucester, a worthy knight, called Sir Philip Harclay, returned from his travels to England, his native country.
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'Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.'When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend, Arthur,Lord Lovel, is no longer alive, and that the castle and estates of the Lovel family have twice changed hands. But a mysteriously abandoned set of rooms in the castle of Lovel promises todisclose the secrets of the past. After a series of frantic episodes and surprising revelations, culminating in a trial by combat, the crimes of the usurper and the legitimacy of the true heir are finally discovered.'The literary offspring of the castle of Otranto', as Reeve described it, The Old English Baron provides an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's groundbreaking work, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medieval England. Innovative and original in its day, Reeve's historical romance isincreasingly recognized as a major influence on the development of Gothic fiction.

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