Mistress of Udolpho
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Mistress of Udolpho

The Life of Ann Radcliffe

Rictor Norton

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The Life of Ann Radcliffe

Rictor Norton

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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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Year
1999
ISBN
9781847142696
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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.
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