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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... poetry hitherto reserved for men , and claimed for herself the winner's prize . 4 And yet , at the very height of her fame , having published five novels , the last three of which were dazzling achievements , she ceased writing . For a ...
... poetry hitherto reserved for men , and claimed for herself the winner's prize . 4 And yet , at the very height of her fame , having published five novels , the last three of which were dazzling achievements , she ceased writing . For a ...
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... poetry , but some aristocratic amateurs were familiar with her romances . George William Frederick Howard , 7th Earl of Carlisle , gently satirized the Gothic taste in his poem ' The Lady and the Novel ' , which was printed beneath an ...
... poetry , but some aristocratic amateurs were familiar with her romances . George William Frederick Howard , 7th Earl of Carlisle , gently satirized the Gothic taste in his poem ' The Lady and the Novel ' , which was printed beneath an ...
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... poetry , play music , draw pictures and contemplate the landscape - pausing long enough in their flight from banditti to analyse the affecting contrasts of a picturesque cliff , employing the precise terminology derived from ...
... poetry , play music , draw pictures and contemplate the landscape - pausing long enough in their flight from banditti to analyse the affecting contrasts of a picturesque cliff , employing the precise terminology derived from ...
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... poetry . Mrs Radcliffe herself frequently climbed to the tops of mountains and cliffs , where she imagined herself as Prospero the Magician , and wandered through Windsor Forest fancying herself a druidess . She fostered the image of ...
... poetry . Mrs Radcliffe herself frequently climbed to the tops of mountains and cliffs , where she imagined herself as Prospero the Magician , and wandered through Windsor Forest fancying herself a druidess . She fostered the image of ...
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... poets had much impact upon the British conviction that pedigree was at least as important as talent . Ann Ward Radcliffe's respectable connections were mostly collateral and maternal- distant maternal cousins included a bishop and a ...
... poets had much impact upon the British conviction that pedigree was at least as important as talent . Ann Ward Radcliffe's respectable connections were mostly collateral and maternal- distant maternal cousins included a bishop and a ...
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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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