A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Radcliffe, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537399 ISBN 13: 9780199537396

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.

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About this title

About the Author:

Also Hon. Wordsworth Fellow, University of Lancaster (1988-1992). Has contributed to volumes of essays on Josephine Butler, and on Gothic writing.

Review:

'Her own survey of the criticism is lucid and wide-ranging.'
Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537399
• ISBN 13: 9780199537396
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Milbank Alison