A Sicilian Romance, 1st Edition
$16.96
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2008
Summary
In A Sicilian Romance (1790), 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.
Julia and Emilia Mazzini live secluded in an ancient mansion near the Straits of Messina. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199537396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199537399 |
| Author: | Ann Radcliffe, Alison Milbank |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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‘Her own survey of the criticism is lucid and wide-ranging.‘Times Literary Supplement
‘Her own survey of the criticism is lucid and wide-ranging.‘Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Ann Radcliffe
Alison Milbank is a John Rylands Research Institute Fellow at the University of Manchester.
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