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Mistress of Udolpho

Name: Mistress of Udolpho
Author: Rictor Norton

The Life of Ann Radcliffe

Rictor Norton,

307 pages
English
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Mistress of Udolpho

The Life of Ann Radcliffe

Rictor Norton,

About this book

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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Publisher

Leicester University Press

Year

1999

Print ISBN

9780718502010

eBook ISBN

9781847142696

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

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was

very 

unequal; 

sometimes

she

was

sunk

in

calm 

melancholy,

and,

at

others,

as

I

have

been

told,

she

betrayed

all

the

symptoms

of

frantic

madness'

(290).

Agnes

is

a

perfect 

example

of

the

eighteenth-century 

medical 

model

of

psychological 

disorder:

'she

was

frantic

and

melancholy

by

quick

alternatives;

then,

she

sunk 

into

a

deep

and

settled 

melancholy, 

which 

still,

however,

has,

at

times,

been

interrupted

by

fits 

of

wildness' 

(577).

All

of

the

genuine 

horrors

of

mental 

alienation

are

adroitly 

projected

from

Emily 

onto

Sister 

Agnes,

who

functions

as

an

aesthetic 

scapegoat 

whereby 

Emily

is

purged

of

madness

('the

horrors',

643)

and

permitted

to

celebrate

the

delightful

terrors

('the

wild 

genius',

296)

of

the

Gothic-Romantic

imagination.

•

a

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1 The Great Enchantress
2 Dissent versus Decorum
3 Taste versus Trade
4 Miss Nancy
5 A Literary Establishment
6 The Aesthetics of Terror
7 Portrait of the Artist
8 Unrivalled Genius
9 Picturesque Tours
10 The Mighty Magician
11 Behind the Veil
12 Horrid Mysteries
13 The Gothic Tourist
14 Olden Times
15 Construction of the Legend
16 Sequestered at Windsor
17 The Final Years
18 Mother Radcliffe
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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