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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... seem to have been systematically sought out despite the clues offered in the Memoir . These sources are identified for the first time in the following study , and many other facts are uncovered and rumours evaluated . Many pieces of the ...
... seem to have been systematically sought out despite the clues offered in the Memoir . These sources are identified for the first time in the following study , and many other facts are uncovered and rumours evaluated . Many pieces of the ...
第 viii 頁
... seem to plant clues to her life in her works , but Arnaud's analysis is marred by an injudicious readiness to see hieroglyphs in everything ; for example , his view that the title Athlin and Dunbayne might be an anagram of ' I Ann ...
... seem to plant clues to her life in her works , but Arnaud's analysis is marred by an injudicious readiness to see hieroglyphs in everything ; for example , his view that the title Athlin and Dunbayne might be an anagram of ' I Ann ...
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... seems to have acquired no friends and few acquaintances . The first biography of her was written three years after her death by a man who never met her , using material supplied solely by her husband and by his own intuition . Her life ...
... seems to have acquired no friends and few acquaintances . The first biography of her was written three years after her death by a man who never met her , using material supplied solely by her husband and by his own intuition . Her life ...
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... seems to have accomplished this quite self - consciously , deliberately and in a manner that we now call feminist . She asserted the right of a woman's work to be deemed a masterpiece : The Mysteries of Udolpho occupied a place on the ...
... seems to have accomplished this quite self - consciously , deliberately and in a manner that we now call feminist . She asserted the right of a woman's work to be deemed a masterpiece : The Mysteries of Udolpho occupied a place on the ...
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... seems possible that St Pierre is a portrait of William Ward , a man of reputable family and small fortune , who leaves London after boarding his seven - year - old daughter at a strange place in Chelsea . If the fiction is not over ...
... seems possible that St Pierre is a portrait of William Ward , a man of reputable family and small fortune , who leaves London after boarding his seven - year - old daughter at a strange place in Chelsea . If the fiction is not over ...
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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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