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Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic

Angela Wright editor Dale Townshend editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Jan '14

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The first fully comprehensive collection of essays devoted to the fictional output of prolific Romantic author, Ann Radcliffe.

A comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of essays on the works of Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) 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.This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to date, this collection of essays, composed by a range of renowned scholars of the Romantic period, also foregrounds the hitherto neglected aspects of the author's work. Radcliffe's relations to Romantic-era travel writing; the complex political ideologies that lie behind her historiographic endeavours; her poetry and its relation to institutionalised forms of Romanticism; and her literary connections to eighteenth-century women's writing are all examined in this collection. Offering fresh considerations of the well-known Gothic fictions and extending the appreciation of Radcliffe in new critical directions, the collection reappraises Radcliffe's full oeuvre within the wider literary and political contexts of her time.

'… 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

ISBN: 9781107032835

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 540g

274 pages