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Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [ 1 ]
CORE - On the origins of the Gothic novel: From Old Norse to Otranto. Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) was the most representative of English Gothic novelists. She is best known for The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), which made her England’s most popular novelist.
29 Νοε 2015 · Regarded as the principal creator of the female Gothic genre, Radcliffe is credited as establishing a standard and new formula for Gothic fiction which earned it great respect and a larger readership. Patriarchal authority and institutions were challenged and examined in the Female Gothic.
1 Ιαν 2022 · Ann Radcliffe’s late eighteenth-century romances are foundational to the development of the Gothic mode. This chapter outlines the ways in which recognisable Gothic motifs arise in her novels and her travel writing and illuminates her essay ‘On the...
Ann Radcliffe created her own style in gothic literature, one that many other authors, films, TV shows, and even cartoons (looking at you, Scooby-Doo, eventually followed: the supernatural explained.
9 Ιουλ 2019 · Radcliffe created the novel of suspense by combining the Gothic romance of Horace Walpole, [7] who initiated the genre of Gothic novels with his rather popular ‘ Castle of Ortranto ‘, with the novel of sensibility, which focused on an impeccable proper heroine and emphasized the love interest.
Radcliffe refined the crude sensationalism of the gothic novel so that it became a vehicle for sensibility, the sublime, and the picturesque.
