The Mysteries of UdolphoThis was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho by her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Here she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors which threaten to overwhelm her. |
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2 Given that novels and romances (in which women were now dominant) were still often deemed what Fanny Burney ironically called 'trifling productions,' 3 compared with the more serious (predominantly male) creative sphere of poetry, ...
2 Given that novels and romances (in which women were now dominant) were still often deemed what Fanny Burney ironically called 'trifling productions,' 3 compared with the more serious (predominantly male) creative sphere of poetry, ...
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What critics of her day called her 'rich vein of invention', 'pleasing suspence' (sic), 'boldness' and 'propriety' of character, and 'elegant description and picturesque scenery' inspired a host of imitators whose Gothic romances ...
What critics of her day called her 'rich vein of invention', 'pleasing suspence' (sic), 'boldness' and 'propriety' of character, and 'elegant description and picturesque scenery' inspired a host of imitators whose Gothic romances ...
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Adjoining the eastern side of the green-house, looking towards the plains of Languedoc, was a room, which Emily called hers, and which contained her books, her drawings, her musical instruments, with some favourite birds and plants.
Adjoining the eastern side of the green-house, looking towards the plains of Languedoc, was a room, which Emily called hers, and which contained her books, her drawings, her musical instruments, with some favourite birds and plants.
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Madame Quesnel, meanwhile, was expressing to Madame St Aubert her astonishment, that she could bear to pass her life in this remote corner of the world, as she called it, and describing, from a wish, probably, of exciting envy, ...
Madame Quesnel, meanwhile, was expressing to Madame St Aubert her astonishment, that she could bear to pass her life in this remote corner of the world, as she called it, and describing, from a wish, probably, of exciting envy, ...
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The languor and dejection, that had lately oppressed her, and which the exertion called forth by the arrival of her guests had suspended, now returned with increased effect. On the following day, symptoms of fever appeared, ...
The languor and dejection, that had lately oppressed her, and which the exertion called forth by the arrival of her guests had suspended, now returned with increased effect. On the following day, symptoms of fever appeared, ...
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