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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.
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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.
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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.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Dale Townshend,Angela Wright
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Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107032835) and paperback(ISBN 9781316619674)