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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That mid-to-late-eighteenth-century authors should have felt the need to perpetrate such hoaxes is testimony both to an intense cultural interest in the medieval or Gothic past and to a fear of presenting and reading about supernatural ...
That mid-to-late-eighteenth-century authors should have felt the need to perpetrate such hoaxes is testimony both to an intense cultural interest in the medieval or Gothic past and to a fear of presenting and reading about supernatural ...
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In 1774 the Decree of the Parliament of Toulouse repeated the medical argument of 'enlightened men devoted to the public interest'. This decree was affirmed in the following year by the Archbishop of Toulouse, Monsignor Lomènie de ...
In 1774 the Decree of the Parliament of Toulouse repeated the medical argument of 'enlightened men devoted to the public interest'. This decree was affirmed in the following year by the Archbishop of Toulouse, Monsignor Lomènie de ...
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In the twentieth century the work continued to maintain interest, with at least five editions appearing. In 1931 J. M. Dent published Udolpho in Everyman's Library, for which Ernest Rhys modernized to some extent Radcliffe's spelling ...
In the twentieth century the work continued to maintain interest, with at least five editions appearing. In 1931 J. M. Dent published Udolpho in Everyman's Library, for which Ernest Rhys modernized to some extent Radcliffe's spelling ...
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Notes have also been provided on matters of textual interest as well as on passages which assume knowledge of eighteenthcentury society, literature, customs, taste and manners. PENGUIN TEXT 1794 EDITION [I/139] [II/227] [III/404] ...
Notes have also been provided on matters of textual interest as well as on passages which assume knowledge of eighteenthcentury society, literature, customs, taste and manners. PENGUIN TEXT 1794 EDITION [I/139] [II/227] [III/404] ...
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... they make dissipation less an object of necessity, and consequently of interest. It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing landscape that she most delighted; ...
... they make dissipation less an object of necessity, and consequently of interest. It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing landscape that she most delighted; ...
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