Ann Radcliffe

Radcliffe, Ann (Ward) - 1764–1823, English novelist, b. London. The daughter of a successful tradesman, she married William Radcliffe, a law student who later became editor of the English Chronicle. Her best works, The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1797), give her a prominent place in the tradition of the Gothic romance. Her excellent use Read More...

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The Romance of the Forest
by Ann Radcliffe, Chloe Chard. 398 pgs.

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This novel, although not as well-known as Radcliffe's later works, is thought to represent her work at its best. More than just a work of suspense and mystery, it is a work of ideas--a discussion of the contrasts between hedonistic doctrines and a system of education and values.

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The Romance of the Forest

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Ann Radcliffe

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Volume I

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter III

Chapter III

Chapter III

Volume II

Chapter X

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Volume III

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII

Explanatory Notes
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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings (Chap. 2 "Domesticating the Sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Dissent")
by Angela Keane. 200 pgs.

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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: Romantic Belongings

Chapter 2: Domesticating the Sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic Dissent

Chapter 3: Forgotten Sentiments: Helen Maria Williams's 'Letters from France'

Chapter 4: Exiles and émigrés: the Wanderings of Charlotte Smith

Chapter 5: Mary Wollstonecraft and the National Body

Chapter 6: Patrician, Populist and Patriot: Hannah More's Counter-Revolutionary Nationalism

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form (Chap. 4 "Attractive Persecution: The Mysteries of Udolpho")
by Elizabeth R. Napier. 168 pgs.

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The English Gothic novel has recently attracted renewed attention by modern critics who have argued its importance as a mirror of late 18th-century discomfort with the political, psychological, and sexual climate of the times. Elizabeth Napier's work challenges these views, suggesting that the instability of the form may be more successfully addressed through a study of generic structure and its relationship to the designs of the fictional works that preceded it. The first full-length study of narrative conventions in the Gothic, The Failure of Gothic examines the disjunctive form of much Gothic fiction, and its repeated, troubling failure to deal conclusively with both the ethical and the formal issues it raises.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

1: Techniques of Closure and Restraint

2: Techniques of Destabilization and Excess

3: Frenzy: The Castle of Otranto

4: Attractive Persecution: The Mysteries of Udolpho

5: Cross-Purposes: The Monk

6: Villainy: The Italian

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index
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Deconstructing the Patriarchal Palace: Ann Radcliffe's Poetry in 'The Mysteries of Udolpho,' in Women and Language
by Ellen Arnold. 8 pgs.

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Gothic Utopia: Heretical Sanctuary in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, in Utopian Studies
by Brenda Tooley. 14 pgs.

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Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 (Chap. 4 "The First Poetess of Romantic Fiction: Ann Radcliffe")
by James Watt. 205 pgs.

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This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. Watt examines the novels' political import and concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and perceptions of the Gothic as a monolithic tradition, which continue to exert a powerful hold.

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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 33: Contesting the Gothic

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Origins: Horace Walpole and the Castle of Otranto

Chapter 2: The Loyalist Gothic Romance

Chapter 3: Gothic 'subversion': German Literature, the Minerva Press, Matthew Lewis

Chapter 4: The First Poetess of Romantic Fiction: Ann Radcliffe

Chapter 5: The Field of Romance: Walter Scott, the Waverley Novels, the Gothic

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property (Chap. Five "Ann Radcliffe and the Political Economy of Gothic Space")
by Wolfram Schmidgen. 266 pgs.

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In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyze the description of houses, landscapes, and commodities in eighteenth-century fiction. His study argues that such descriptions are important to the British imagination of community. By making visible what it means to own something, they illuminate how competing concepts of property define the boundaries of the individual, of social community, and of political systems. In this way, Schmidgen recovers description as a major feature of eighteenth-century prose, and he makes his case across a wide range of authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, William Blackstone, Adam Smith, and Ann Radcliffe. The book's most incisive theoretical contribution lies in its careful insistence on the unity of the human and the material: in Schmidgen's argument, persons and things are inescapably entangled. This approach produces fresh insights into the relationship between law, literature, and economics.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Communal Form and the Transitional Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Chapter Two: Terra Nullius, Cannibalism, and the Natural Law of Appropriation in Robinson Crusoe

Chapter Three: Henry Fielding and the Common Law of Plenitude

Chapter Four: Commodity Fetishism in Heterogeneous Spaces

Chapter Five: Ann Radcliffe and the Political Economy of Gothic Space

Chapter Six: Scottish Law and Waverley's Museum of Property

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Religion, Toleration and British Writing, 1790-1830 (Chap. 2 "Holy 'Hypocrisy' and the Rule of Belief: Radcliffe's Gothics")
by Mark Canuel. 321 pgs.

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Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional religious conformity of British political unity. Canuel reveals how writers (including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Lord Byron) undermined the validity of religion in the British state, and envisioned a tolerant and more organized mode of social inclusion and protection. He asserts that these writers considered their works to be political and literary commentaries on religious toleration.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Romanticism and the Writing of Toleration

Chapter 2: Holy Hypocrisy and the Rule of Belief: Radcliffe's Gothics

Chapter 3: Coleridge's Polemic Divinity

Chapter 4: Sect and Secular Economy in the Irish National Tale

Chapter 5: Wordsworth and “The Frame of Social Being”

Chapter 6: Consecrated Fancy: Byron and Keats

Chapter 7: Conclusion: the Inquisitorial Stage

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Narrative and the Readers at Home, in Studies in the Novel
by Scott Mackenzie. 22 pgs.

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Ann Radcliffe and Natural Theology, in Studies in the Novel
by Anne Chandler. 20 pgs.

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Women, Revolution and the Novels of the 1790s ("Radcliffe, Godwin, and Self-Possession in the 1790s" begins on p. 89)
by Linda Lang-Peralta. 192 pgs.

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This collection of essays focuses on sub-genres of the novel form that evolved during the end of the century. These were novels -- frequently written by women -- that reflect the intersections between literature and popular culture.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Women and Public Space In the Novel of the 1790s

Revolutionary Domesticity In Charlotte Smith's Desmond

The Crowd and the Public In Godwin's Caleb Williams

Injustice in the Works Of Godwin and Wollstonecraft

Radcliffe, Godwin, And Self-Possession in the 1790s

Lewis's the Monk And The Matter of Reading

The Imprisoned Female Body In Mary Hays's the Victim of Prejudice

Masculinity and Morality In Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art

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Contributors
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Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide ("Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)" begins on p. 349)
by Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. 516 pgs.

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With its roots in Romanticism, antiquarianism, and the primacy of the imagination, the Gothic genre originated in the 18th century, flourished in the 19th, and continues to thrive today. This reference work provides an introduction to Gothic literature and its abundant criticism and summarizes contemporary developments and critical opinion in Gothic Studies. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King. Each entry includes a primary bibliography, a critical essay on the author's place in the Gothic tradition, and a selected, annotated bibliography of scholarship. Entries for Russian, Japanese, French, and German writers give an international scope to the book, while the focus on English and American literature shows the dynamic nature of Gothicism today.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld

William Harrison Ainsworth

Ueda Akinari

Gertrude Atherton

Margaret Atwood

Jane Austen and the Northanger Novelists

Franýois Thomas Marie de Baculard dýArnaud

William Beckford

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte

Charles Brockden Brown

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Wilkie Collins

Charlotte Dacre [Rosa Matilda]

Charles Dickens

Franýois Guillaume Ducray-Duminil

Mary Wilkins Freeman

William Godwin

Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks, and Short Stories in the Magazines

Gothic Drama

Nathaniel Hawthorne

E[rnst] T[heodor] A[madeus] Hoffmann

James Hogg

Washington Irving

Henry James

Stephen King

Izumi Kyoka

D. H. Lawrence

Sophia Lee

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Matthew Gregory ýMonký Lewis

George Lippard

H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft

Arthur Machen

Charles Robert Maturin

Herman Melville

Toni Morrison

Joyce Carol Oates

Flannery OýConnor

Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky

Edgar Allan Poe

John Polidori

Ann Radcliffe

Clara Reeve

Count Donatien Alphonse Franýois Sade

Friedrich von Schiller

Sir Walter Scott

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Charlotte Turner Smith

Robert Louis Stevenson

Bram Stoker

Ludwig Tieck

Horace Walpole

General Bibliography of Critical Sources and Resources

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of Critics, Editors, and Translators

About the Editors and Contributors

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