Royalist Historiography in T. J. Horsley Curties's Ethelwina: Or, The House of Fitz-Auburne (1799)

Citation

Townshend D (2012) Royalist Historiography in T. J. Horsley Curties's Ethelwina: Or, The House of Fitz-Auburne (1799). Gothic Studies, 14 (1), pp. 57-73. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.14.1.7

Abstract
This article seeks to provide an account of the political biases at stake in the conceptualisation of medieval English history in Ethelwina, Or The House of Fitz-Auburne (1799), the first fiction of the prolific Gothic romancer-turned-Royal Body Guard T. J. Horsley Curties. Having considered Curties's portrayal of the reign of King Edward III in the narrative in relation to formal historiographies of the period, the article turns to address the politics of Curties's appropriation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Keywords
Exon of the Guard; Royalism; Gothic; Edward III; Historiography; Romance

Journal
Gothic Studies: Volume 14, Issue 1