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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... every 'European tongue' to the 'honour of the country', 8 and Sir Walter Scott in 1824 could still recall the excitement and captivation of whole families as Radcliffe's volumes 'flew, and were sometimes torn, from hand to hand'. 9 ...
... every 'European tongue' to the 'honour of the country', 8 and Sir Walter Scott in 1824 could still recall the excitement and captivation of whole families as Radcliffe's volumes 'flew, and were sometimes torn, from hand to hand'. 9 ...
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On the one hand, thrill to a scene of 'Catholic superstition' in the knowledge that they are such bugbears. On the other hand, Emily's visit to the church offers them disquietening reminders of a Gothic custom surviving in and ...
On the one hand, thrill to a scene of 'Catholic superstition' in the knowledge that they are such bugbears. On the other hand, Emily's visit to the church offers them disquietening reminders of a Gothic custom surviving in and ...
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In her hands it becomes a romantic affirmation of the value of the imagination in perception, and a source of the spiritual belief and poeticization of the world which the German Romantic writer Novalis, in his novel Heinrich von ...
In her hands it becomes a romantic affirmation of the value of the imagination in perception, and a source of the spiritual belief and poeticization of the world which the German Romantic writer Novalis, in his novel Heinrich von ...
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On the other hand many English, irrespective of social class, seem to have preferred to be buried in churchyards. Indeed, the serenity of the English rural churchyard was romanticized in Thomas Gray's immensely popular Elegy Written in ...
On the other hand many English, irrespective of social class, seem to have preferred to be buried in churchyards. Indeed, the serenity of the English rural churchyard was romanticized in Thomas Gray's immensely popular Elegy Written in ...
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St Aubert observed this more than once, and gently reproved her for the emotion; but she could only smile, clasp his hand, and that of Emily, and weep the more. He felt the tender enthusiasm stealing upon ...
St Aubert observed this more than once, and gently reproved her for the emotion; but she could only smile, clasp his hand, and that of Emily, and weep the more. He felt the tender enthusiasm stealing upon ...
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