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At the limits of perception: liminal space, vision and the interrelation of word and image in Walpole's Strawberry Hill, The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother
- Author(s):
- Kirstin Mills (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Architecture, Gothic, Gothic revival (Literature), Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Gothic fiction
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- eighteenth-century studies, Gothic, gothic architecture, gothic literature, literary genres, supernatural, walpole
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/3ebt-sy61
- Abstract:
- This paper explores the ways that Horace Walpole’s Gothic texts, The Castle of Otranto, The Mysterious Mother, and even the architectural Strawberry Hill, operate within a fascinating nexus of visual and narrative discourse. By analysing the intersections of the verbal and visual within these works, which combine and collide within liminal spaces that figure a threshold state between the supernatural and the subconscious, this paper explores the ways that Walpole’s texts work collectively to interrogate eighteenth-century theories of perception and imagination by positing a slippage between word and image that undermines the human attempt to make sense of the world.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 12 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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