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Fear and Wish-fulfilling Flights of Fancy: Walpole’s Nightmare of Class Conflict and the Restoration of Aristocracy in The Castle of Otranto

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dc.contributor.author Koç, Ertuğrul
dc.contributor.author Atcan Altan, Neslihan
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-12T11:48:18Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-12T11:48:18Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Koç, Ertuğrul; Atcan Altan, Neslihan (2014). "Fear and Wish-fulfilling Flights of Fancy: Walpole’s Nightmare of Class Conflict and the Restoration of Aristocracy in The Castle of Otranto", Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, Vol. 57, No. 1. tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 0084-4446
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/6867
dc.description.abstract This article discusses The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole as the first gothic work dramatizing, through the theme of “usurpation”, the emergence of the new but “greedy” bourgeoisie in England in the eighteenth century as a threat against the long-established, and from Walpole’s perspective, “divinely ordered” aristocratic system. Au fait with the worries and expectations of aristocracy, for he is the son of Robert Walpole (the first Prime Minister of England), and a member of nobility and the Parliament, Walpole, in his work, cannot help defending the established system against the emerging bourgeois paradigm. In the article, Walpole’s concern with the chaotic state of his country, which he reveals through building a devastating class conflict in Otranto, will be analyzed with the help of biographical, historical, and Marxist approaches. Finally, by referring to the Freudian theory of “wish-fulfillment through dreams”, Walpole’s solution for the conflict will be shown to be a self-gratifying one, satisfying the author’s aristocratic self tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess tr_TR
dc.title Fear and Wish-fulfilling Flights of Fancy: Walpole’s Nightmare of Class Conflict and the Restoration of Aristocracy in The Castle of Otranto tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 57 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 1 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Mütercim Tercümanlık Bölümü (İngilizce) tr_TR


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