The Mysteries of UdolphoOUP Oxford, 18/06/1998 - 736 من الصفحات `Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: `permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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... kind of Gothic stage - set against which friends and acquaintances metamorphose— absurdly into outsized Radcliffean villains and victims . The results are amusing : Northanger Abbey remains one of the great spoofs on reading - as ...
... kind of Gothic stage - set against which friends and acquaintances metamorphose— absurdly into outsized Radcliffean villains and victims . The results are amusing : Northanger Abbey remains one of the great spoofs on reading - as ...
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... kind of prose can scarcely be imagined . Radcliffe regularly begins each chapter with a formal poetic epigraph - usually a chunk from Shakespeare or Milton or a mid - eighteenth - century poet such as Thomson , Beattie , or Blair . In ...
... kind of prose can scarcely be imagined . Radcliffe regularly begins each chapter with a formal poetic epigraph - usually a chunk from Shakespeare or Milton or a mid - eighteenth - century poet such as Thomson , Beattie , or Blair . In ...
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... kind of supplemental ' poetic ' authority - often to the point of thematic overkill . ( By Volume 2 , Chapter 3 , we already know that Montoni is wicked and devious : the prefatory epigraph here from Julius Caesar- describing a ...
... kind of supplemental ' poetic ' authority - often to the point of thematic overkill . ( By Volume 2 , Chapter 3 , we already know that Montoni is wicked and devious : the prefatory epigraph here from Julius Caesar- describing a ...
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... kind of nineteenth - century version of " Clarissa Harlowe " . " 4 The Apennines could not compete . Yet even such eminently forceful pronouncements might be countered . For all of its romantic ambience , The Mysteries of Udolpho also ...
... kind of nineteenth - century version of " Clarissa Harlowe " . " 4 The Apennines could not compete . Yet even such eminently forceful pronouncements might be countered . For all of its romantic ambience , The Mysteries of Udolpho also ...
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... kind , adapted for a secular age . Her book itself is a kind of mystery- machine , of course , full of local puzzles and conundrums . Who has stolen the miniature of Emily in the book's opening chapters ? What is in her dead father's ...
... kind , adapted for a secular age . Her book itself is a kind of mystery- machine , of course , full of local puzzles and conundrums . Who has stolen the miniature of Emily in the book's opening chapters ? What is in her dead father's ...
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abbess alarmed Ann Radcliffe Annette apartment Apennines appeared Aubert aunt Barnardine believe Blanche casement castle Cavigni chamber chateau circumstances condottieri conversation cottage Count Morano countenance dark dear distance door Dorothée Du Pont Emily Emily's emotion endeavoured enquired exclaimed eyes faint fancy father fear Gascony gloom Gothic Fiction grief happiness hear heard heart hope hour knew La Voisin lady Languedoc late leave length light listened looked Ludovico ma'amselle Madame Cheron Madame Montoni Marchioness melancholy mind mountains Mysteries of Udolpho never night observed opened passed paused perceived person Pont Pyrenées Quesnel Radcliffe rampart recollected remembered replied retired returned Rousillon scarcely scene seemed seen servants shew sigh Signor silent smile solemn soon sound spirits stair-case stranger suffered sunk surprised tears tell tenderness terrace terror Theresa Tholouse thought trembling Udolpho Valancourt Vallée Venice Verezzi Villefort voice watch waves whither wish woods