Research Catalog

Title

Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic / edited by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Townshend, Dale
• Wright, Angela, 1969 May 14-

Description

xv, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto understudied aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her time"--

Subjects

• Romanticism > Great Britain
• Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 > Criticism and interpretation
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Gothic and Romantic engagements: the critical reception of Ann Radcliffe, 1789-1850 Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; 2. Ann Radcliffe, precursors and portraits Joe Bray; 3. Ann Radcliffe and Romantic print culture Edward Jacobs; 4. Ann Radcliffe and politics James Watt; 5. Ways of seeing in Ann Radcliffe's early fiction: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) and A Sicilian Romance (1790) Alison Milbank; 6. The heroine, the abbey and popular Romantic textuality: The Romance of the Forest (1791) Diane Long Hoeveler; 7. Popular Romanticism and the problem of belief: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Robert Miles; 8. Transnational aesthetics in Ann Radcliffe's A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 [.] (1795) JoEllen DeLucia; 9. Recovering the Walpolean Gothic: The Italian: Or, the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796-7) Jerrold E. Hogle; 10. Ann Radcliffe beyond the grave: Gaston de Blondeville and its accompanying texts Samuel Baker; 11. Ann Radcliffe's poetry: the poetics of refrain and inventory Jane Stabler; 12. Ann Radcliffe and Romantic-era fiction Sue Chaplin; 13. 'A portion of the name': stage adaptations of Radcliffe's fiction, 1794-1806 Diego Saglia.

Call Number

JFE 14-2766

ISBN

• 9781107032835 (hardback)
• 1107032830 (hardback)

LCCN

2013032787

OCLC

864788401

Title

Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic / edited by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.

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Added Author

Townshend, Dale, editor.

Wright, Angela, 1969 May 14- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2766