Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann RadcliffeBloomsbury Publishing, 1999年5月1日 - 307 頁 This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a conventional Anglican, background. This places Radcliffe within the circle of other women writers nurtured in radical Dissenting backgrounds (such as Wollstonecraft, Hays, Inchbauld and Barbauld). Radcliffe's childhood and family background are documented and the rumours of her madness and reclusiveness investigated leading to an evaluation of the resons for her probable mental breakdown. The text constitutes a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place within radical culture, literary tradition and aesthetic discourse, and examining her role in the rise of the professional woman writer. Her novels are analyzed mainly in the context of her biography and sources. |
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... perhaps most daring of all , a certain guarded intellectual freedom . . . . [ The self - exploration of heroines ] who have been divested of all power except that which they exercise over themselves ... is not pointless retreat but ...
... perhaps most daring of all , a certain guarded intellectual freedom . . . . [ The self - exploration of heroines ] who have been divested of all power except that which they exercise over themselves ... is not pointless retreat but ...
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... perhaps the first self - created ' enigma ' in the manner of Greta Garbo ; her reclusiveness was possibly a strategy for maintaining her reputation as the greatest novelist of the age- the mysterious author of the sensational Gothic ...
... perhaps the first self - created ' enigma ' in the manner of Greta Garbo ; her reclusiveness was possibly a strategy for maintaining her reputation as the greatest novelist of the age- the mysterious author of the sensational Gothic ...
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... perhaps even in Europe - should live a completely sequestered life . The result of their unassuaged curiosity is best summed up by a mid - Victorian critic : Leading a life of domestic seclusion , . . . Mrs Radcliffe was utterly unknown ...
... perhaps even in Europe - should live a completely sequestered life . The result of their unassuaged curiosity is best summed up by a mid - Victorian critic : Leading a life of domestic seclusion , . . . Mrs Radcliffe was utterly unknown ...
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... perhaps because she sympathized with the ' prophetic ' and magical strains in her work . On 24 April 1883 Rossetti wrote to Ingram : My brother tells me you are kindly thinking of me for ' Mrs Radcliffe ' . She takes my fancy more than ...
... perhaps because she sympathized with the ' prophetic ' and magical strains in her work . On 24 April 1883 Rossetti wrote to Ingram : My brother tells me you are kindly thinking of me for ' Mrs Radcliffe ' . She takes my fancy more than ...
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... perhaps because of the hints of madness in the existing memoirs - only one brief letter and one short journal have been discovered in the one hundred years since then . The article produced a ' meagre contingent ' of ' Radcliffeana ...
... perhaps because of the hints of madness in the existing memoirs - only one brief letter and one short journal have been discovered in the one hundred years since then . The article produced a ' meagre contingent ' of ' Radcliffeana ...
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6 The Aesthetics of Terror | 66 |
7 Portrait of the Artist | 82 |
8 Unrivalled Genius | 92 |
12 Horrid Mysteries | 152 |
13 The Gothic Tourist | 175 |
14 Olden Times | 192 |
15 Construction of the Legend | 203 |
16 Sequestered at Windsor | 219 |
17 The Final Years | 234 |
18 Mother Radcliffe | 250 |
Notes | 260 |
9 Picturesque Tours | 108 |
10 The Mighty Magician | 124 |
11 Behind the Veil | 137 |
Bibliography | 288 |
Index | 302 |
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