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John Gery, Davenport's Version.(Book Review)
From: Prairie Schooner
Date: 20050622
Author:Behrendt, Stephen C.
John Gery, Davenport's Version, Portals Press Donald Finkel, Not So the Chairs: Selected and New Poems, Mid-List Press
The first Gothic novel appeared in 1763, when the English aristocrat and literary dilettante Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto. In that novel's first edition, Walpole introduced one of the most venerable of fictional subterfuges, the so-called "found manuscript." A nameless fictional "editor" reports in a prefatory essay that he has discovered a mysterious old, unattributed manuscript dating, he believes, from early Renaissance Italy and whose ...
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