Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic
Dale Townshend · Angela Wright
Jan 2014 · Cambridge University Press
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275
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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.
About the author
Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His most recent publications include Macbeth: A Critical Reader (co-edited with John Drakakis, 2013) and The Gothic World (co-edited with Glennis Byron, 2013).
Angela Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield and is currently Co-President of the International Gothic Association. She is author of Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764–1820 (Cambridge, 2013) and Gothic Fiction: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2007).
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