Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio. She has published articles about women writers and Romantic poetry in journals such as ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and, most recently, Victorian Studies and New Literary History. In addition to the present volume, Mandell is general editor of the Poetess Archive Database, a full-text and bibliographic resource, and co-editor of the Romantic Chronology. Her first book, Misogynous Economies, analyzes the relationship between misogyny, literariness, and the canon in eighteenth-century literature.

• List of IllustrationsAbout Longman Cultural EditionsAbout This VolumeIntroductionTable of DatesThe Castle of Otranto(1764 )The Man of Feeling(1771)ContextsThe Sublime, the Supernatural, the RealEdmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the BeautifulAnna Letitia Aikin [Barbauld], John Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment”David Hume, “Of Miracles”Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 4; Preface to ShakespeareClara Reeve, The Progress of Romance; Preface to The Old English BaronSamuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia LiterariaThe Gothic Revival and ChivlaryWilliam Chambers, Civil ArchitectureJohn Carter, “An Architect,” Gentleman’s Magazine 1799, 1801Horace Walpole, Description of . . . Strawberry-HillHorace Walpole, George Vertue, Anecdotes of PaintingAlexander Pope, Preface to The Works of ShakespeareRichard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and RomanceWalter Scott, An Essay on ChivalryMarriage, Obedience, SentimentWilliam Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of EnglandHorace Walpole, Memoires of . . . George IITobias Smollett, Reign of George IIThomas Pennant, Of LondonAlexander Keith, “Observations on the [Marriage] ActGeorge Savile, Lord Halifax, Advice to a DaughterJames Fordyce, Sermons for Young WomenCultures of FeelingFrancis Hutcheson, An Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral GoodSamuel Richardson, Preface to PamelaAdam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsJean-Jacques Rousseau, ConfessionsHenry Mackenzie, from The LoungerAlexander Bicknell, Painting PersonifiedLaurence Sterne, Tristram ShandyWhat the Reviewers SaidCastle of Otranto:Critical Review, January 1765Critical Review, June 1765[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, February 1765[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, May 1765Horace Walpole, Letter in Reply to Mme. Du Deffand (March 1767)Ann Yearsley, “To the Honourable H---E W---E, on Reading The Castle of Otranto” (December 1784)Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Walpole” (1810)Walter Scott, “Prefatory Memoir to Walpole” (1823, 1834)Man of Feeling:Monthly Review, May 1771Critical Review, June 1771London Magazine, August 1771Town and Country Magazine, August 1771Scots Magazine, August 1771Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Mackenzie” (1810)Walter Scott, “Prefatory Memoir to Mackenzie” (1823)Further Reading

Laura Mandell is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Miami University of Ohio. She has published articles about women writers and Romantic poetry in journals such as ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and, most recently, Victorian Studies and New Literary History. In addition to the present volume, Mandell is general editor of the Poetess Archive Database, a full-text and bibliographic resource, and co-editor of the Romantic Chronology. Her first book, Misogynous Economies, analyzes the relationship between misogyny, literariness, and the canon in eighteenth-century literature.

• List of IllustrationsAbout Longman Cultural EditionsAbout This VolumeIntroductionTable of DatesThe Castle of Otranto(1764 )The Man of Feeling(1771)ContextsThe Sublime, the Supernatural, the RealEdmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the BeautifulAnna Letitia Aikin [Barbauld], John Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment”David Hume, “Of Miracles”Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 4; Preface to ShakespeareClara Reeve, The Progress of Romance; Preface to The Old English BaronSamuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia LiterariaThe Gothic Revival and ChivlaryWilliam Chambers, Civil ArchitectureJohn Carter, “An Architect,” Gentleman’s Magazine 1799, 1801Horace Walpole, Description of . . . Strawberry-HillHorace Walpole, George Vertue, Anecdotes of PaintingAlexander Pope, Preface to The Works of ShakespeareRichard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and RomanceWalter Scott, An Essay on ChivalryMarriage, Obedience, SentimentWilliam Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of EnglandHorace Walpole, Memoires of . . . George IITobias Smollett, Reign of George IIThomas Pennant, Of LondonAlexander Keith, “Observations on the [Marriage] ActGeorge Savile, Lord Halifax, Advice to a DaughterJames Fordyce, Sermons for Young WomenCultures of FeelingFrancis Hutcheson, An Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral GoodSamuel Richardson, Preface to PamelaAdam Smith, Theory of Moral SentimentsJean-Jacques Rousseau, ConfessionsHenry Mackenzie, from The LoungerAlexander Bicknell, Painting PersonifiedLaurence Sterne, Tristram ShandyWhat the Reviewers SaidCastle of Otranto:Critical Review, January 1765Critical Review, June 1765[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, February 1765[John Langhorne], Monthly Review, May 1765Horace Walpole, Letter in Reply to Mme. Du Deffand (March 1767)Ann Yearsley, “To the Honourable H---E W---E, on Reading The Castle of Otranto” (December 1784)Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Walpole” (1810)Walter Scott, “Prefatory Memoir to Walpole” (1823, 1834)Man of Feeling:Monthly Review, May 1771Critical Review, June 1771London Magazine, August 1771Town and Country Magazine, August 1771Scots Magazine, August 1771Anna Letitia Barbauld, “Mackenzie” (1810)Walter Scott, “Prefatory Memoir to Mackenzie” (1823)Further Reading