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SUMMARY:Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagining of English 
 Aesthetic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is pleased to pr
 esent the exhibition Printing the Gothic: Horace Walpole and the Reimagini
 ng of English Aesthetic Tradition\, curated by Edward Hyunsoo Yang\, Loren
  and Frances Rothschild Endowed Graduate Research Fellow.\nThe Gothic has 
 long carried a reputation of being little more than cheap entertainment: a
  genre thought to possess limited literary or cultural value. This exhibit
  challenges that view by tracing the Gothic’s connection to a collective
  cultural effort to establish\, and promote\, an identifiably English art.
  At the center of this exhibit is Horace Walpole—antiquarian\, collector
 \, and author of the first Gothic novel—whose Castle of Otranto makes st
 riking use of the preface to address readers directly\, and fundamentally 
 reimagines how readers might engage with material texts. This gesture\, wh
 ich becomes a hallmark of later Gothic works\, exemplifies how paratextual
  spaces invited interaction between writer and reader. By examining Gothic
  fiction alongside eighteenth-century art historiography\, this exhibit hi
 ghlights a shared practice of using the material book—its prefaces\, fra
 ming texts\, and editorial choices—not only to inspire readers\, but als
 o to contribute to a national cultural project.\n\n\n 	3:30 PM – Doors O
 pen\n 	4:00 PM – Welcome remarks by Head Librarian Derek Christian Queza
 da Meneses\n 	4:05 PM – Introduction and overview presentation by Curato
 r Edward Hyunsoo Yang\n 	4:30-6:00 PM – Reception and exhibition viewing
 \n\nThe exhibition will be on view through April 13\, 2026 and will be ope
 n by appointment only. To schedule an appointment\, please contact clarkto
 urs@humnet.ucla.edu.\n\n\nThe event is free to attend and will be held in-
 person at the Clark Library.\nSeating is limited at the Clark Library\; wa
 lk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: 
 John Carter\, Inside of the PRINTING-HOUSE at Strawberry-hill\, as reprodu
 ced for the frontispiece of A. T. Hazen’s A Bibliography of Strawberry H
 ill Press (New Haven: Yale University Press\, 1942). Courtesy of the Willi
 am Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
CATEGORIES:Special Event
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street
 \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States
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