The Italian Or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents

Name: The Italian
Author: Ann Radcliffe

Auteur: Ann Radcliffe

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ann Radcliffe Ann Ward Radcliffe

Engels
Paperback
9780977784141
20 juli 2006
448 pagina's

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe was born in 1764, the daughter of a London tradesman. In 1786 she married William Radcliffe, later the manager of The English Chronicle. She set her first novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), in Scotland, and it received little critical or public attention. Using more exotic locations in Europe, notably the 'sublime' landscapes of the Alps and Pyrenees, she wrote four more novels within ten years: A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolfo (1794) and The Italian (1797), as well as a volume of descriptions of her travels in Holland, Germany and the Lake District.

The success of The Romance of the Forest established Radcliffe as the leading exponent of the historical Gothic Romance. Her later novels met with even greater attention, and produced many imitators (and, famously, Jane Austen's burlesque of The Romance of the Forest in Northanger Abbey), and influenced the work of Sir Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Italian was the last book she published in her lifetime; a novel, Gaston de Blondeville, and St. Albans Abbey: A Metrical Tale were published posthumously. Despite the sensational nature of her romances and their enormous success, Radcliffe and her husband lived quietly—she made only one foreign journey and barely glimpsed the Alps that she wrote about so vividly. She died in 1823 from respiratory problems probably caused by pneumonia.

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In "The Italian" (1797), Ann Radcliffe pits a scheming noblewoman and a ruthless monk against young lovers trying to bridge seemingly insurmountable class differences. The scenes of sublime nature, mysterious groans, corrupt ecclesiastics, isolated fortifications, and Inquisitorial torture reveal eighteenth-century Gothic fiction at its finest. "The Italian" stands as the final and darkest work of England's most successful Gothic novelist, and it presents Radcliffe at the peak of her literary skills.

The Valancourt Books edition includes a carefully annotated and edited first edition text with a substantial introductory essay on the literary, historical, and biographical contexts of the novel. The appendix features a map of locations in "The Italian," three complete Gothic stories by Radcliffe's contemporaries, and essays on terror fiction by Nathan Drake and John and Anna Aikin.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 juli 2006
Aantal pagina's: 448
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Ann Radcliffe
Tweede Auteur: Ann Ward Radcliffe
Hoofdredacteur: Allen, W Grove
Hoofduitgeverij: Valancourt Books

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Originele titel: The Italian; Or, the Confessional of the Black Penitents (Valancourt Classics)

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Editie: Valancourt Book ed.
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 566 g

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EAN: 9780977784141

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