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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ann Radcliffe"”.
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Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley: From Local to Global Ecology
… of the eighteenth and nineteenth century: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and Mary Shelley (1797-1851). The six primary texts that I put under an ecofeminist lens are Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian …
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
“Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology” argues Radcliffe’s first three novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), and The Romance of the Forest (1791), show a progression of feminist theology informed by the late eighteenth-century …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… thesis: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by three major elements noted in the …
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
… from eighteenth-century popular novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and others, and via the Romantic poets. Its presence was marked by motifs, but just as importantly by mood: terror, the Burkeian sublime, which becomes associated with Romantic transcendence; and horror, Gothic’s darker …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… fiction of Western writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ann Radcliffe and Edgar Allen Poe. Writers from Pushkin to Dostoevskii, including the major Symbolists, wrote fiction combining the real with the macabre and supernatural. However, following the inauguration of the Soviet regime and the …
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… (‘Virtue Explored: The Concept of Virtue in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian’) introduces how the idea of virtue was defined and propagated in the eighteenth century – particularly by looking at contemporary conduct books – and whether or not Radcliffe embraces or rejects these conservative ideals …
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Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
… identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender …