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| | The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age: Topic 2: Overview |
 | | In the context of British Romanticism, "Literary Gothicism" is a type of imitation medievalism. |
 | | When it was launched in the later eighteenth century, Gothicism featured accounts of terrifying experiences in ancient castles — experiences connected with subterranean dungeons, secret passageways, flickering lamps, screams, moans, bloody hands, ghosts, graveyards, and the rest. |
 | | The Gothic revival, which appeared in English gardens and architecture before it got into literature, was the work of a handful of visionaries, the most important of whom was Horace Walpole (1717–1797), novelist, letter writer, and son of the prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. |
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