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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Clara Reeve, building on Walpole's theory of a new kind of romance, had argued in The Progress of Romance (1785) that modern Gothic romance could avoid the improbability of the old by portraying closely a Gothic society remote in time ...
Clara Reeve, building on Walpole's theory of a new kind of romance, had argued in The Progress of Romance (1785) that modern Gothic romance could avoid the improbability of the old by portraying closely a Gothic society remote in time ...
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... Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) had listed as a virtue 'of the sublimer kind'. 28 As mentioned earlier, Emily must not allow her imagination to become 'distempered' by giving in to baseless fears, illusions, superstition.
... Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) had listed as a virtue 'of the sublimer kind'. 28 As mentioned earlier, Emily must not allow her imagination to become 'distempered' by giving in to baseless fears, illusions, superstition.
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St Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric, which he remembered in his youth, and would not suffer a stone of it to be removed, so that the new building, adapted to the style of the old one, formed with it only a ...
St Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric, which he remembered in his youth, and would not suffer a stone of it to be removed, so that the new building, adapted to the style of the old one, formed with it only a ...
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Soon after this period, her anxiety was awakened by the indisposition of her father, who was attacked with a fever; which, though not thought to be of a dangerous kind, gave a severe shock to his constitution. Madame St Aubert and Emily ...
Soon after this period, her anxiety was awakened by the indisposition of her father, who was attacked with a fever; which, though not thought to be of a dangerous kind, gave a severe shock to his constitution. Madame St Aubert and Emily ...
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... nor fear the fairy kind! But soon the vapour of the woods will wander afar, And the fickle moon will fade, and the stars disappear. Then, cheerless will they be, tho' they fairies are, If I, with my pale light, come not near!
... nor fear the fairy kind! But soon the vapour of the woods will wander afar, And the fickle moon will fade, and the stars disappear. Then, cheerless will they be, tho' they fairies are, If I, with my pale light, come not near!
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