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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of essays on the works of Ann Radcliffe (17641823) that provides compelling and highly original accounts of Radcliffe's position within the canon of Romantic poetry, her relationship with the political turbulence of the age, and the status of her authorship.
Trade Review'… a timely contribution to the fields of Gothic studies and Romanticism through its multifaceted exploration of biography, literature, media, and art. Though Radcliffe has never disappeared from the view of Romanticists or Gothicists, this collection reaffirms her prominence in both fields …' Laura R. Kremmel, Keats-Shelley Journal
Table of ContentsPreface; 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.
