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juushikaTitle: The Old English Baron
Author: Clara Reeve
Published: 1778
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 170
Total Page Count: 549,825
Text Number: 2048
Read Because: this recommendation list, Project Gutenberg has this one
Review: This is more interesting in its forthright relationship with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto than as a standalone work: immediately, the gothic genre begins to wrestle with its excess. This scaled-back approach offers a fantastic but restrained spooky section, surrounded by a lot of hand-wringing about class, inheritance, and jealousy, resolved in the most thorough dénouement I've ever seen. Where this is tedious, it's constrained by its length; both the intent and the result are charming (in that inadvertently overblown way; I love how much everyone weeps and avows), but this is skippable unless you're really curious about the evolution of the genre.
Author: Clara Reeve
Published: 1778
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 170
Total Page Count: 549,825
Text Number: 2048
Read Because: this recommendation list, Project Gutenberg has this one
Review: This is more interesting in its forthright relationship with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto than as a standalone work: immediately, the gothic genre begins to wrestle with its excess. This scaled-back approach offers a fantastic but restrained spooky section, surrounded by a lot of hand-wringing about class, inheritance, and jealousy, resolved in the most thorough dénouement I've ever seen. Where this is tedious, it's constrained by its length; both the intent and the result are charming (in that inadvertently overblown way; I love how much everyone weeps and avows), but this is skippable unless you're really curious about the evolution of the genre.
