List of Illustrations About Longman Cultural Editions About This Volume Introduction Table of Dates The Castle of Otranto (1764) The Man of Feeling (1771) Contexts The Sublime, the Supernatural, the Real Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful Anna 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 Shakespeare Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance; Preface to The Old English Baron Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria The Gothic Revival and Chivlary William Chambers, Civil Architecture John Carter, An Architect, Gentleman's Magazine 1799, 1801 Horace Walpole, Description of . . . Strawberry-Hill Horace Walpole, George Vertue, Anecdotes of Painting Alexander Pope, Preface to The Works of Shakespeare Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance Walter Scott, An Essay on Chivalry Marriage, Obedience, Sentiment William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England Horace Walpole, Memoires of . . . George II Tobias Smollett, Reign of George II Thomas Pennant, Of London Alexander Keith, Observations on the [Marriage] Act George Savile, Lord Halifax, Advice to a Daughter James Fordyce, Sermons for Young Women Cultures of Feeling Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry Concerning the Original of Our Ideas of Virtue or Moral Good Samuel Richardson, Preface to Pamela Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Henry Mackenzie, from The Lounger Alexander Bicknell, Painting Personified Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy What the Reviewers Said Castle of Otranto: Critical Review, January 1765 Critical Review, June 1765 [John Langhorne], Monthly Review, February 1765 [John Langhorne], Monthly Review, May 1765 Horace 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 1771 Critical Review, June 1771 London Magazine, August 1771 Town and Country Magazine, August 1771 Scots Magazine, August 1771 Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mackenzie (1810) Walter Scott, Prefatory Memoir to Mackenzie (1823) Further Reading