From the Longman Cultural Editions series, The Castle of Otranto and The Man of Feeling, edited by Laura Mandell, presents a lively pairing of mid-eighteenth century works that mark a watershed in the history of the novel. These short novels, published within the same decade-Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771)-helped produce the turn from social realism to sentimentality and strangeness...